[csaa-forum] THIS THURSDAY UTS: violence and the image

[Katrina Schlunke]

All very welcome - light refreshments provided.

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> Semester 2 Session 2:
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> Violence and the Image
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> Date:                    Thursday 21st August 2008
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> Time:                   4-6 pm
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> Location:             Training Room, Level 6, Building 1
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> Seeing Things: Affect and Image
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> How might we speak of images of torture, and how might we regard  
> the pain of others in the age of digital media? Using the examples  
> of a short film by Alejandra Canales which recounts the experience  
> of torture,  and the Abu Ghraib photographs, this paper examines  
> the function of the image and its relationship to epistemology. How  
> do we know what we see? And how might we rethink the orthodox  
> function of the image in the age of digital technology? In  
> attempting to answer these questions I argue that the production of  
> virtual experience is a capacity of the human body, and that image  
> making, like all genres of communication, is a practice in virtual  
> community.
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> Dr Maria Angel belongs to the the School of Communication Arts at  
> UWS and is a member of the Writing and Society Research Group.  
> Current research interests include the transformation of literary  
> genres in new media contexts, and memory and corporeality
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> Settlement and the ideology of visual representation in Australia  
> in the nineteenth century
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> Throughout the twentieth century property ownership has been  
> central to the attainment of patriarchal masculinity in Australia.  
> It has been invested with notions of self-sufficiency and autonomy  
> and has been a key element in attaining other signs and symbols  
> (rights and privileges) of patriarchal masculinity, including a  
> wife and family. This emphasis on property ownership was an  
> invention of the English Enlightenment of the seventeenth century  
> and arrived in Australia in the late eighteenth century courtesy of  
> liberal administrators such as Arthur Phillip and convicts such as  
> the Scottish radicals transported in 1793 by the Pitt Government  
> for their attempt to establish a democratically elected convention.  
> The celebration of property ownership as a symbol of patriarchal  
> masculinity has been performed again and again throughout the  
> twentieth century history of Australian popular culture (The  
> Castle, They’re a Weird Mob) and has formed a basis for the history  
> of development in both rural and urban Australia. This paper will  
> examine the construction of this ideal in the early nineteenth  
> century through an analysis of a range of visual images. It will  
> argue that the energy invested in creating this ideal elided a  
> contested and violent history of settlement dominated by  
> concentrations of land and capital.
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> Jacquie Kasunic is a Lecture in the Faculty of Design, Architecture  
> and Visual Communication at UTS. She is currently completing her  
> PhD which is based on an extended ethnographic study of small  
> family farmers in south west Queensland.
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> Cameron White is an early career researcher based in the Faculty of  
> the Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. He has published a  
> number of articles on Australian masculinity in the nineteenth  
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Dr Katrina Schlunke
Research Coordinator,
Communications Program
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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