Frames of Viewing - Perception, experience, judgement

Organizer

The conference "Frames of Viewing - Perception, Experience, Judgement" was organized in May 2002 by the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, USA, and took place in Berlin.

Context

Does increased use of the visual media lead to greater visual intelligence on the part of viewers, or are they merely more effectively manipulated? This was the question that was addressed by the "Frames of Viewing - Perception, Experience, Judgement" conference: the combined forces of the cognitive sciences, historical sciences, ethnology, philosophy and the media sciences are giving rise to new approaches to perception and image theory, which were discussed by international experts in four panels.

Programme

[link 01] I. Perception
[link 02] II. Visual Concepts
[link 03] III. Image Production
[link 04] IV. Picture Studies

Speakers

I. Perception

Lawrence Kruger

Professor of neurobiology, School of Medicine des UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
"Determinants in the Temporal Domain of Framing" (in English)
[17.05.2002]
[link 19] Lecture [RealMedia | 40 Min.]
[link 20] Discussion [RealMedia | 6 Min.]
[link 21] Database Entry
[link 22] About Lawrence Kruger

Lydia Haustein

Professor of art history and media theory, College of Design, Berlin-Weissensee, Germany
"Bild, Repräsentation und Wahrnehmung" (in German)
[17.05.2002]
[link 23] Lecture [RealMedia | 22 Min.]
[link 24] Discussion [RealMedia | 26 Min.]
[link 25] Database Entry
[link 26] About Lydia Haustein

Jerry Moore

Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, California, USA
"Dynamic Frames: Reconstructing Ritual Performances in the Ancient Andes" (in English)
[17.05.2002]
[link 27] Lecture [RealMedia | 34 Min.]
[link 28] Database Entry
[link 29] About Jerry Moore

Olaf Breidbach

Director of the Theory Laboratory at the Institute of the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
"Internal representations - internal worlds and the perception of objects" (in German/English)
[17.05.2002]
[link 30] Lecture [RealMedia | 39 Min.]
[link 31] Discussion [RealMedia | 25 Min.]
[link 32] Database Entry
[link 33] About Olaf Breidbach

II. Visual Concepts

Gerhard Wolf

Professor of art history, University of Trier, Germany, Director of the Institute of Art History in Florence (Max Planck Institute), Italy
"Augenflug und Federbild. Bildkonzepte zwischen Metaphern und Materialitäten" (in English)
[17.05.2002]
[link 34] Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
[link 35] Discussion [RealMedia | 8 Min.]
[link 36] Database Entry
[link 37] About Gerhard Wolf

Anne Friedberg

Professor of film science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
"The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft" (in English)
[17.05.2002]
[link 38] Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
[link 39] Discussion [RealMedia | 18 Min.]
[link 40] Database Entry
[link 41] About Anne Friedberg

Michael Diers

Professor of art history, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
"Augenblick und Bewegung oder Fotografie als Film" (in German)
[17.05.2002]
[link 42] Lecture [RealMedia | 38 Min.]
[link 43] Discussion [RealMedia | 12 Min.]
[link 44] Database Entry
[link 45] About Michael Diers

III. Image Production

Benjamin Buchloh

Professor of art history, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA
"Richter's Realisms: From Socialist to Photographic" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 46] Lecture [RealMedia | 59 Min.]
[link 47] Discussion [RealMedia | 16 Min.]
[link 48] Database Entry
[link 49] About Benjamin Buchloh

Jyotindra Jain

Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India
"Clemente's India experience" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 50] Lecture [RealMedia | 31 Min.]
[link 51] Discussion [RealMedia | 18 Min.]
[link 52] Database Entry
[link 53] About Jyotindra Jain

Andrew Perchuk

PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History, Yale University, USA
"Robert Irwin: Against the Gestalt" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 54] Lecture [RealMedia | 41 Min.]
[link 55] Discussion [RealMedia | 11 Min.]
[link 56] Database Entry
[link 57] About Andrew Perchuk

IV. Picture Studies

Caroline A. Jones

Professor of art history, Boston University, USA
"The Modernist Sensorium, a critical history of Clement Greenberg" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 58] Lecture [RealMedia | 41 Min.]
[link 59] Discussion [RealMedia | 16 Min.]
[link 60] Database Entry
[link 61] About Caroline A. Jones

Hans Belting

Professor of aestetics, art history and media history, College of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Frame of Viewing oder Frames of Viewing?" (in German)
[18.05.2002]
[link 62] Lecture [RealMedia | 28 Min.]
[link 63] Discussion [RealMedia | 17 Min.]
[link 64] Database Entry
[link 65] About Hans Belting

Horst Bredekamp

Professor of mediaeval und modern art history, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
"Kunstgeschichte als historische Bildwissenschaft" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 66] Lecture [RealMedia | 31 Min.]
[link 67] Discussion [RealMedia | 14 Min.]
[link 68] Database Entry
[link 69] About Horst Bredekamp

Terry Smith

Director of the Power Institute, Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney, Australia
"Difference and Reconciliation: Art Writing in the Clash between Cultures" (in English)
[18.05.2002]
[link 70] Lecture [RealMedia | 46 Min.]
[link 71] Discussion [RealMedia | 7 Min.]
[link 72] Database Entry
[link 73] About Terry Smith

For further information about the organizer, the House of World Cultures click [link 74] here.

The speakers' contributions at the conference were recorded by the organizer, the House of World Cultures. Those given in German were simultaneously translated into English.

To view the tele-lectures, you will need RealPlayer, which can be downloaded free of charge from [link 75] http://www.real.com.