Migrating Images - Reading and Translating Images Transculturally

Organizer

The symposium "Migrating Images - Reading and Translating Images transculturally" was organized by the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and held in the House on 7/8 November 2003.

Context

An incessant stream of new images, assailing us daily in everyday culture, film, and the creative arts, has led to an exponential expansion of the image cosmos. Precisely in our "visual age", images are, despite their seemingly immediate accessibility, not uniformly intelligible for viewers from different cultural areas, thus requiring translation. The speakers, comprising art historians, curators, and art and media scholars, discussed how images can be produced, presented, read and translated today.

Programme

[link 01] Introduction
[link 02] Reading: The readability of images
[link 03] Transporting: Translating images
[link 04] Producing: Image production in a global context
[link 05] Presenting: Displaying images
[link 06] Resumé: Images travelling transculturally

Speakers

Introduction

Peter C. Seel

Project leader at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Introduction of the Conference "Migrating Images"
[07.11.2003]
[link 18] Video [RealMedia | 10 Min.]
[link 19] Video [Windows Media | 10 Min.]
[link 20] Database Entry

Reading: The readability of images

J.W.T. Mitchell

Professor of English and art history, University of Chicago, USA
"Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry"
[07.11.2003]
[link 21] Lecture [RealMedia | 37 Min.]
[link 22] Discussion [RealMedia | 21 Min.]
[link 23] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 60 Min.]
[link 24] Database Entry
[link 25] About J.W.T. Mitchell

Jyotindra Jain

Professor of art and aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Universität, New Delhi, India
"Indian Popular Imagery: Reconfiguring the Cultural Identity"
[07.11.2004]
[link 26] Lecture [RealMedia | 31 Min.]
[link 27] Discussion [RealMedia | 22 Min.]
[link 28] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 54 Min.]
[link 29] Database Entry
[link 30] About Jyotindra Jain

Dirk Naguschewski

Scholar at the Centre for Literary Research, Berlin, Germany
"Reading Foreign Films: African Images and the German Audience"
[07.11.2003]
[link 31] Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
[link 32] Discussion [Real Media | 14 Min.]
[link 33] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 49 Min.]
[link 34] Database Entry
[link 35] About Dirk Naguschewski

Transporting: Translating images

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
"Aboriginality: Gesture, Encounter and Visual Culture"
[07.11.2003]
[link 36] Lecture [RealMedia | 32 Min.]
[link 37] Discussion [RealMedia | 23 Min.]
[link 38] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 60 Min.]
[link 39] Database Entry
[link 40] About Nicholas Mirzoeff

Avinoam Shalem

Professor of the history of islamic art at Ludwig Maximilian's University, Munich, Germany
"Objects as Carriers of Real or Contrived Memories in a Cross-Cultural Context"
[07.11.2003]
[link 41] Lecture [RealMedia | 30 Min.]
[link 42] Discussion [RealMedia | 18 Min.]
[link 43] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 48 Min.]
[link 44] Database Entry
[link 45] About Avinoam Shalem

Producing: Image production in a global context

Ackbar Abbas

Professor of comparative literature, Hong Kong University, China
"Framing the City through Cinema"
[08.11.2003]
[link 46] Lecture [RealMedia | 29 Min.]
[link 47] Discussion [RealMedia | 26 Min.]
[link 48] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
[link 49] Database Entry
[link 50] About Ackbar Abbas

Sabine Flach

Scholar at the Centre for Literary Research, Berlin, Germany
"Der Ort der Bilder: Der Körper als kulturelle Repräsentation in der Medienkunst"
[08.11.2003]
[link 51] Lecture [RealMedia | 29 Min.]
[link 52] Discussion [RealMedia | 26 Min.]
[link 53] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
[link 54] Database Entry
[link 55] About Sabine Flach

Geeta Kapur

Art critic and curator, New Delhi, India
"subTerrain: Artists Dig the Contemporary"
[08.11.2003]
[link 56] Lecture [RealMedia | 36 Min.]
[link 57] Discussion [RealMedia | 28 Min.]
[link 58] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 56 Min.]
[link 59] Database Entry
[link 60] About Geeta Kapur

Presenting: Displaying Images

Machiko Kusahara

Professor of media art at Waseda University, curator and media scholar, Japan
"No Border! Art as Entertainment from a Japanese Point of View"
[08.11.2003]
[link 61] Lecture [RealMedia | 49 Min.]
[link 62] Discussion [RealMedia | 21 Min.]
[link 63] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 75 Min.]
[link 64] Database Entry
[link 65] About Machiko Kusahara

Resumé: Images travelling transculturally

Sarat Maharaj

Professor of art history and theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Great Britain
"On Cultural Translation"
[08.11.2003]
[link 66] Lecture [RealMedia | 69 Min.]
[link 67] Discussion [RealMedia | 44 Min.]
[link 68] Lecture and discussion [Windows Media | 118 Min.]
[link 69] Database Entry
[link 70] About Sarat Maharaj

Discussion with Nicolas Mirzoeff und Lydia Haustein, Moderation: Salah Has

For further information about the organizer, the House of World Cultures, Berlin, click [link 71] here.

To view the tele-lectures, you will need RealPlayer or Windows Media Player, which can be downloaded free of charge from: [link 72] http://www.real.com or [link 73] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/.

The individual contributions were recorded by the organizer, the Centre for Literary Studies, Berlin, Germany. We apologize for any losses in sound or picture quality.