[csaa-forum] TOMORROW: violence and the image at UTS

[Katrina Schlunke]

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> All very welcome - light refreshments provided. Building 10 is off  
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cheers
katrina
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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 10
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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  
>> century.
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Dr Katrina Schlunke
Research Coordinator,
Communications Program
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Editor Cultural Studies Review
http://www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au/

University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 9514 2294






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