Experiencing Visual Images: Registration

One-day interdisciplinary conference on images and the gaze.

University College London

A hybrid one-day conference that seeks to explore the possible intersections between scientific, philosophical, historical and artistic approaches to understanding the gaze and the image.For IN-PERSON attendees: the conference will take place at UCL's Gower Street campus, room TBC. There is a £5 registration fee to help cover the rising costs of refreshments. Please note that for organisational reasons, in-person registration closes on 03/11.For ONLINE attendees: see the 'Additional Information' section at the bottom of your confirmation email for Zoom joining instructions. Registration is free, and is open until 10/11.Supported by LAHP (London Arts and Humanities Partnership).

Provisional programme:9:00-9:30 – Registration and refreshments9:30-9:45 – Introductory remarks9:45-11:00 – Keynote speechesProf. Sussan Babaie, Courtauld: Anthologizing the experience of seeing: ‘visuality’, ‘smell’, and ‘taste’ in a Persian dishProf. Samuel Solomon, UCL: What we do and don’t know about how we see what we see11:00-11:15 – Coffee break11:15-12:05 – Panel 1: ArtCynthia Cabañas—Dramatic Irony: A case study in the potential mutual benefit of combining social neuroscience with film theoryJessica Clarke—Reading the image of the ancient comic mask12:05-12:55 – Panel 2: PerceptionClaire Anscomb—“#filterdrop”: Attending to Photographic AlterationsPaulina Dudzińska—Life projections – microcinematography and time-lapse in the science films of Jean Painlevé and the aesthetic experience of non-human vitalityMaximillian Priebe—The touch behind the gaze: 18th century discourses on vision and George Berkeley’s semiotics of perception12:55-14:00 – Lunch14:00-14:50 – Panel 3: PoliticsAnthony Longo—Seeing the Public Sphere: On Interactive Spectatorship as a Political ActMarcus De Matos—The shadows of modern state law: a visual genealogy of Dark Knights14:50-15:40 – Panel 4: IdentityVaughn Joy—Capra-Vision: The Cinematography and Authorial Gaze of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)Doriane Molay—The visual experience of everyday photography: crossing disciplines to understand our self-fashioningJack Smurthwaite—A fragmented self: painted digital images and autofiction15:40-16:00 – Tea break16:00-16:50 – Panel 5: ChallengeRhys Sparey—Sensing Islam Online: Sublimation, Cyclicality, and Atmospheres among Elegists and Mourners on YouTubeFlorence Platford—Beyond Reason’s Confines: Illumination and the Defence of VisualitySarah Ramadhita—Decolonising the gaze: Traditional textiles and Modern style16:50-18:20 – Roundtable discussion18:20-19:00 – Drinks reception

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