Coding and Representation

The Courtauld Research Forum

A two-day conference (please note locations): 18.20 – 21.00, Friday 20 January 2017, Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE (with registration from 18.00) 10.45 – 18.45, Saturday 21 January 2017 (with registration from 10.00),  Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
This interdisciplinary conference examines the way that coding and representation are enmeshed.  Cultural instances will be examined from the nineteenth century to the present.  Fine art, graphic imagery, film and photography, literature, scientific concepts and political form will be considered.  In an era of electrical, and eventually digital, communication, the use of codes and machine code in transmission became ubiquitous.  The conference considers representation in this broad range of categories in the light of the constraints and possibilities of code.  This conference coincides with the last few days of the exhibition currently on at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London ‘Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy’ <A HREF="https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/victorians-decoded.aspx" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visit-the-city/attractions/guildhall-galleries/Pages/victorians-decoded.aspx</A> Those attending the conference will have the chance to view the exhibition on Friday evening, after the opening keynote paper to be given at the Guildhall Art Gallery by Mary Ann Doane (author of  The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency and the Archive, 2002).  The second day of the conference is held at The Courtauld Institute for Art with a concluding keynote paper by Gail Day (author of Dialectical Passions: Negation and Postwar Art Theory, 2010) and Steve Edwards (author of <A HREF="http://oro.open.ac.uk/31251/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems</A>, 2012).

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