[csaa-forum] FW: Creative Arts Lecture - Technovisuality - the Avalanche of Images and the Intimate Screen

[John Tebbutt]

Apologies for cross-posting.
Invitation to Public Lecture

Who: Professor Helen Grace

Topic : Technovisuality, The Avalanche of Images and the Intimate Screen

When: 12.30pm, Thursday 18 August 2011

Where: HU2, Room 228 (The Learning Room)

About the lecture:

Technovisuality, The Avalanche of Images and the Intimate Screen

In describing the proliferation of images today, Vilem Flusser has noted that ‘Nothing can resist the force of this current of technical images—there is no artistic, scientific or political activity which is not aimed at it, there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed, videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

In this way however, every action simultaneously loses its historical character and turns into a magical ritual and an endlessly repeatable movement.  The universe of technical images, emerging all around us, represents the fulfillment of the ages, in which action and agony go endlessly round in circles.’

This presentation will discuss the historical significance of ubiquitous image-production, especially in Asia with particular reference to user-created content and it will consider the implications for art and creativity that this phenomenon produces.

About the Speaker:


Professor Helen Grace established the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong.She has been a Board member of numerous Art Festival Boards internationally, including Microwave New Media Art Festival, and on key Visual Studies committees in Hong Kong. Helen participated in the Consultancy Team that conducted the first study of Manpower Planning in the Arts and Culture in Hong Kong for the Hong Kong government. She has played a major role in organising international academic conferences on Cultural Studies International conference,  including the co-organizion of the international conference on Technovisuality and Cultural Re-enchantment in Hong Kong in November 2008. She has lectured widely in Taiwan, Korea and Singapore. Helen is an award winning filmmaker and new media producer and a recent exhibition, entitled ‘IPO: Emotional Economies’ was held in Hong Kong in 2009.




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