The Stone Summer Theory Institute 2011 - "Farewell to Visual Studies"
Co-organized with Sunil Manghani and Gustav Frank
School of the Art Institute of Chicago(SAIC)
The Stone Summer Theory Institute is week-long school in contemporary art theory. It is held in Chicago, in July, at the School of the Art Institute. Each year brings together an unprecedented gathering of international scholars to discuss an unresolved question in contemporary art theory. This year, the final one in the series, is on the field variously called visual studies, visual culture, Bildwissenschaft, or image studies. The field, or fields, were first developed twenty years ago as an answer to art history; visual studies was intended to address the whole of the visual world beyond fine art. Now, twenty years later, visual studies has developed nameable strengths and limitations, which are our subject for July 2011.
Theme:
The field of Visual Studies, inaugurated in the 1990s, has not fulfilled its promise--which was, roughly, to provide an optimal methodological model for the study of images of all sorts, and to create a new academic space partly inside, and partly outside, existing structures. Despite the appearance of new journals and online sites devoted to visual studies, and despite the continuously increasing number of departments worldwide, the field of visual studies remains a minority interest with an increasingly predictable set of interpretive agendas and subjects. Typically it attracts students in the humanities, who explore Marxist critiques of mass media and fine art. The growth of vision science, together with the rise of hybrid departments without the term "visual studies" or its analogues--such as the initiatives in East Anglia and Leiden, which study "world art"--may signal the end of the project of visual studies. Our purpose is to assess the relevant history, current condition, and future prospects of visual studies, image studies, visual culture, Bildvetenskap, Bildwissenschaft, and other initiatives.
Faculty:
James Elkins (SAIC)
Sunil Manghani (York St. John's University)
Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Lisa Cartwright (UCSD)
Keith Moxey (Barnard College/Columbia University)
Whitney Davis (UCB)
Michael Ann Holly (Clark Art Institute)
Schedule(pdf.):
July 17
Opening Lecture: James Elkins - "Some Limits of Visual Studies"
July 18
Opening round table
Seminar 1: Gustav Frank - Historical background: The emergence of visuelle Kultur
Evening Lecture: Keith Moxey - "Bruegel's Crows"
July 19
Seminar 2: Michael Ann Holl - Historical Background: Anglo-American Visual Studies, 1989-1999
Seminar 3: Sunil Manghan - Historical Background: Visual Studies, 2000-present
July 20
Seminar 4: Gustav Frank and James Elkin - Historical background: The Iconic Turn and Bildwissenschaft
Seminar 5: Keith Moxey - Contrasting Bildwissenschaft and Visual Studies
Evening Lecture: Sunil Manghani: "Regarding Images Studies: Towards a New Ecology of Images"
July 21
Seminar 6: Sunil Manghani and James Elkin - How Does Visual Studies Present the Visual?
Seminar 7: Whitney Davis - What is Visual in Visual Culture?
Evening Lecture: Whitney Davis- "Why Visual Studies Needs a New Art History"
July 22
Seminar 8: Keith Moxey and James Elkin - Visual Studies and Politics
Seminar 9: Lisa Cartwright - Visual Studies, Science Studies, and New Media Studies
July 23
Closing round table
Publication:
The Art Seminar Series (New York: Routledge, 2005-2008)
Vol. 1: Art History versus Aesthetics
Vol. 2: Photography Theory
Vol. 3: Is Art History Global?
Vol. 4: The State of Art Criticism
Vol. 5: Renaissance Theory
Vol. 6: Landscape Theory
Vol. 7: Re-Enchantment
The Stone Summer Theory Institutes Series (PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2010-onward)
Vol. 1: Art and Globalization
Vol. 2: What is an Image?
Vol. 3: What do Artists Know?
Vol. 4: Beyond the Anti-Aesthetic
Vol. 5: Farewell to Visual Studies
more info on SSTI's website
Co-organized with Sunil Manghani and Gustav Frank
School of the Art Institute of Chicago(SAIC)
The Stone Summer Theory Institute is week-long school in contemporary art theory. It is held in Chicago, in July, at the School of the Art Institute. Each year brings together an unprecedented gathering of international scholars to discuss an unresolved question in contemporary art theory. This year, the final one in the series, is on the field variously called visual studies, visual culture, Bildwissenschaft, or image studies. The field, or fields, were first developed twenty years ago as an answer to art history; visual studies was intended to address the whole of the visual world beyond fine art. Now, twenty years later, visual studies has developed nameable strengths and limitations, which are our subject for July 2011.
Theme:
The field of Visual Studies, inaugurated in the 1990s, has not fulfilled its promise--which was, roughly, to provide an optimal methodological model for the study of images of all sorts, and to create a new academic space partly inside, and partly outside, existing structures. Despite the appearance of new journals and online sites devoted to visual studies, and despite the continuously increasing number of departments worldwide, the field of visual studies remains a minority interest with an increasingly predictable set of interpretive agendas and subjects. Typically it attracts students in the humanities, who explore Marxist critiques of mass media and fine art. The growth of vision science, together with the rise of hybrid departments without the term "visual studies" or its analogues--such as the initiatives in East Anglia and Leiden, which study "world art"--may signal the end of the project of visual studies. Our purpose is to assess the relevant history, current condition, and future prospects of visual studies, image studies, visual culture, Bildvetenskap, Bildwissenschaft, and other initiatives.
Faculty:
James Elkins (SAIC)
Sunil Manghani (York St. John's University)
Gustav Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Lisa Cartwright (UCSD)
Keith Moxey (Barnard College/Columbia University)
Whitney Davis (UCB)
Michael Ann Holly (Clark Art Institute)
Schedule(pdf.):
July 17
Opening Lecture: James Elkins - "Some Limits of Visual Studies"
July 18
Opening round table
Seminar 1: Gustav Frank - Historical background: The emergence of visuelle Kultur
Evening Lecture: Keith Moxey - "Bruegel's Crows"
July 19
Seminar 2: Michael Ann Holl - Historical Background: Anglo-American Visual Studies, 1989-1999
Seminar 3: Sunil Manghan - Historical Background: Visual Studies, 2000-present
July 20
Seminar 4: Gustav Frank and James Elkin - Historical background: The Iconic Turn and Bildwissenschaft
Seminar 5: Keith Moxey - Contrasting Bildwissenschaft and Visual Studies
Evening Lecture: Sunil Manghani: "Regarding Images Studies: Towards a New Ecology of Images"
July 21
Seminar 6: Sunil Manghani and James Elkin - How Does Visual Studies Present the Visual?
Seminar 7: Whitney Davis - What is Visual in Visual Culture?
Evening Lecture: Whitney Davis- "Why Visual Studies Needs a New Art History"
July 22
Seminar 8: Keith Moxey and James Elkin - Visual Studies and Politics
Seminar 9: Lisa Cartwright - Visual Studies, Science Studies, and New Media Studies
July 23
Closing round table
Publication:
The Art Seminar Series (New York: Routledge, 2005-2008)
Vol. 1: Art History versus Aesthetics
Vol. 2: Photography Theory
Vol. 3: Is Art History Global?
Vol. 4: The State of Art Criticism
Vol. 5: Renaissance Theory
Vol. 6: Landscape Theory
Vol. 7: Re-Enchantment
The Stone Summer Theory Institutes Series (PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2010-onward)
Vol. 1: Art and Globalization
Vol. 2: What is an Image?
Vol. 3: What do Artists Know?
Vol. 4: Beyond the Anti-Aesthetic
Vol. 5: Farewell to Visual Studies
more info on SSTI's website
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