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Spaces Changing among Images: A Study of Early Chinese Narrative Pictorial Art
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Xiaoxuan Li
In a narrative image of a special theme, usually a particular location of the scene would be set to describe the contents. When many images were shown together, how to make them connect? This study examines series images in early Chinese narrative pictorial art to see how ancient Chinese artisans arranged different pictures in one surface. Through research of the spaces changing from one picture to another, it could be seen that the spaces of pictures constructed a mode of the world. Besides natural spaces, the pictures were also arranged after the mode of dividing social spaces. By presenting the social spaces, the images told the mode of social relationship of people in certain society. In the monumental surfaces like shrine walls, ritual bronzes and lacquers, the images enhanced the visual impressions of the ideal mode of the world to the society’s members who saw the images. Therefore, the logic of arranging pictures, through spaces dividing and connecting patterns, presents political ideals from a certain society as well as the images' contents.
Place/ Hybrid Space: An Experiment in Cross-cultural Visual Language
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jon Jicha
“Place – Hybrid Space” is a series of diptychs, which combines two images into one frame; a juxtaposition of surface space and atmospheric space, drawings positioned on photographs, impressions of southeastern India. The project formulates a way of thinking for a feeling of place, a sense of place, and a sense of time in place. The large format prints (42"w x 106"h) reference universal and unique conditions of memory. The development of this symbiotic workspace was the evolutionary process and the conversations between the two artists, Jon Jicha and Pankaj Panwar. Through this experiment, the photographs, images of places in India, and anecdotal drawings seemed to foster a very reasonable discourse. A commonality of intrinsic language emerged within each configuration of intuitive vocabulary. Partial funding for the project was provided by grants from Western Carolina University and the North Carolina Arts Council. “Place – Hybrid Space” is on display through May 2021 at WCU. The exhibition will travel next to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, India.
The Missing Hand of Mark Manders: On How to Have a Conversation With an Exhibition View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sofie Gielis
The process of reading is a continuous creation of coherence. By placing information in a certain order, you create a meaningful line. A pattern is woven by each act of reading, with every reader bringing his or her context to the text and by the layers each text has to offer. In that sense, every reading is a conversation. Not predetermined by either the reader, nor the text. As anthropologist and all-around thinker Tim Ingold has convincingly argued in his book Lines (2007), this process of line-making is omnipresent in our human lives, in many more instances than we recognise at first sight. This exploration will start from Ingold’s ideas, combined with Hanneke Grootenboer’s insights on the pensive image, to expand the concept of reading as the creation of a line of coherence to the story of images. In particular images woven into an exhibition. As a case study, it will focus on Mark Manders as a conversation partner. Manders is an interesting case in point as he builds an oeuvre that he regards to be a selfportrait in the shape of an imaginary expanding building. Let’s try to shake his hand and follow the traces of his images in the controlled environment of one of his solo exhibitions, The Absence of Mark Manders at the museum Bonnefanten (Maastricht, the Netherlands from 4.2.20 until 23.8.20).
#IAmReal: Saudi Women in the Post-Vision 2030 Era - Mobility, Visibility, and Hyperreality View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rana Jarbou
On October 25th, 2017, Saudi woman named Amna, who was abused by her father and male guardian, posted a call pleading for help onto her YouTube channel. On the same day, Sophia the robot came to the Saudi public sphere through a YouTube video broadcast by the Future Investment Initiative, a conference that brings together companies and international investors to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in which we learn that she is given Saudi citizenship. Having been appropriated as political symbols, for decades, Saudi women had little control over their image; There’s a “complicated” history of the face and image of the Saudi woman and what her citizenship looks like. Three years since Saudi women began to drive legally, a plethora of images of “empowered women” permeated the screens, magazines, and even billboards in New York and London. Examining modern images of Saudi women requires us to think in historical terms and contexts: how these visibilities and mobilities evolved. This paper investigates the politics of display of Saudi women being symbolically problematized and contested. It explores the impact of the changes enacted during the post Vision 2030 era: driving rights, reduced guardianship powers, and the blurring of gender lines in certain public and private spaces. I argue that 2017 marks an important temporal juncture for Saudi women, the feminist discourse, and the overall collective consciousness of gender inequality and discrimination. This is the climax of what was an undeniable movement of women in Saudi Arabia, before they even started driving.
Effects of the Use of Avatars on Online Campus Interaction: The Image of Self-representation View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nur Cemelelioglu, Barış Öçal, Ayca Unluer
One of the most noticeable adverse effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic has been seen on education, among other dynamics of daily life. Universities are continuing their education with online tools under the pandemic measures. The departments affected the most by the online methods are art and design departments that foster studio practice over seminars. Tukana Virtual Campus, a conceptual design model that we developed under TÜBİTAK SOBAG 1001 Scientific and Technological Research Support Program, aims to allow students and educational staff to carry out many practices and activities that are present in a physical campus online; besides synchronic education. In this paper, we focused on the outcomes of qualitative and quantitive research methods, connected with avatars on online campus applications as one of the main elements of interaction between students and educators. The key findings (at on self-created and customized avatars on online campus applications are; Users can proceed with their academic and non-academic activities on the campus with them, They have great importance on social interaction (e.g., communicating by seeing someone's avatar, establishing empathy). There is a notable connection between avatars and spatial interaction and gamification, They affect users’ motivation by enriching self-expression (e.g., visible emotional states, unique physical appearance) and open communication, Moreover, avatars are a way of self-expression among both students and lecturers, feeling a sense of belonging, given that the said elements can be customized according to the user's will. As the freedom of customization features increases, so does the motivation each user possesses.
Vaccination at the Homebush Corral: What Can We Learn from a Pandemic? View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session David Julian Cubby
Vaccination at the Homebush Corral – What can we learn from a pandemic? is a key essay component of my autoethnographic research into disparate meaning(s) of the term image. As well as testing answers to questions asked in the essay it is clear that much may be learnt from careful observation of fools as listening with consideration to accredited scholars. For example, current leadership in pandemic Australia is plagued from the top with professional experience in marketing, the business of managing appearances or ‘image’ whilst the best of everyday Australian citizens team-works intelligently through an apolitical approach to ‘get the job done’, imagine that. Along with a background summary of certain key events referencing critical media analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic through Sydney 2020/2021, the essay muses on the unanticipated appeal of the NSW Health, Sydney Vaccination Hub, Olympic Park, Homebush, Sydney. Lived experience witnessed and communicated can change minds, encourage greater articulation of observation made extensive and shared culturally rather than insight resigned to quiescent, solitary intuition. Valuable lessons can be learnt from our Australian response to the current pandemic crisis. Observing the Olympic site hub in action, its smooth, good-humoured public service efficiency, altruistic organisational skills and the uniquely Australian brilliance of a special multicultural blend of sufficient qualified staff servicing a multicultural diaspora is uplifting, optimistic and positive.
