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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear
colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
note that the deadline for abstracts for the conference <i>Visuality/Materiality:
reviewing theory, method and practice</i>, 9-11 July, London, has been extended
until 2<sup>nd</sup> January 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
forward 200 word abstracts to </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk">Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk</a></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. Further information
is available from <a
href="http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality">http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality</a>
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ruth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>Dr Ruth Fazakerley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:Ruth.Fazakerley@unisa.edu.au"><span style='color:#31849B'>Ruth.Fazakerley@unisa.edu.au</span></a><span
style='color:#31849B'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>South Australian School of Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>University of South Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>K4-12 Kaurna Building, City West<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#31849B'>Tel: + 61 (8) 8302 0422 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing
Theory, Method and Practice</span></i><b><i><span lang=EN-US> </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
"Cambria","serif";color:gray'>At the Royal Institute for British Architects,
London,</span></i><i><span lang=EN-US> </span></i><i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:gray'>9th-11th July, 2009</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Plenary Speakers: Professor Elizabeth Edwards,</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Professor Paul Frosh, Professor Jane
Jacobs</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Confirmed Speakers Include:</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Mike Crang (Durham),</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Prof David Stark (Columbia University), Prof Karen
Knorr-Cettina (Chicago),</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Nirmal Puwar (OU); Marquard Smith (Westminster);</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Prof Mimi Sheller (Swarthmore),</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Ruth Panelli (UCL); Yoke-Sum Wong</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>(Lancaster); Craig Campbell (Alberta);
Mathias Broth (Linkoping University), Oskar Juhlin (Interactive Institute);
Dean Sully (UCL); Michael Pryke (Ou); Eric Laurier (Edinburgh); Niki Sperou
(visual artist);</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Ruth
Fazakerley (Visual Artist, Adelaide) and Agnieszka Golda (Visual Artist,
Wollongong)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Media: Paper Presentations, Visual Art, Film, Visual workshops,</span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Visual</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US> </span></b><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Methodologies</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Visuality/Materiality</span></i><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'> attends
to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching
both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>interrogation of</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>image as sign, metaphor, and text has long dominated the realm
of visual theory and analysis. But the material role of visual praxis in
everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research;
visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of
domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of practices of living
and political being, are critical to 21<sup>st</sup> century</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>grammars</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>of
living. The relationship between</span><i><span lang=EN-GB> </span></i><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>Visuality/ Materiality</span></i><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>here is about social meaning and practice; where identity,
power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded
approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday
embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility. This conference is aimed at
providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>contemporary</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>visual
theory</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>and practice</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice,</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>the</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>affective,</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs
our intellectual critique. The organisers are keen to encourage contributions
based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality
and visual critique including concern with:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#17365D'>·</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>What is the relationship between</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>materiality and the visuality?</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#17365D'>·</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>How do we develop new theoretical approaches to new visual
practices? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#17365D'>·</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>What can we learn from everyday visualities? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#17365D'>·</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>How can we approach ethical</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>practices</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>through
visual practices?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#17365D'>·</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'> </span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>How are theories of materiality, performance, embodiment</span><span
lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#17365D'>employed</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>in
research on the visual?</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To participate in the conference will cost £185
Employed/ £120 studs (tbc):</span><b><span lang=EN-GB> </span></b><a
href="http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>And send a
200 word abstract by January 2nd 2009 to: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><a
href="mailto:Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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