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April 18, 2005
Words, Images & Framing of Social Reality
Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality
Monday, April 18th, 2005
65 5th Avenue, New York , New York
Randall Packer gives a talk on the "Artist as Mediator."
Session #5 5:30pm – 6:45pm
Wolff Conference Room, Second Floor
Artistic Mediation
Conference Description
A spring interdisciplinary conference hosted by The New School Graduate Faculty Department of Liberal Studies is seeking paper presentations, videos, visual art, and/or performance pieces that confront the topic of “Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality.”
Words and images are the conceptual tools used to “frame” our understanding of social reality. Oftentimes, these words and images unify our understandings of a concept to be classified as “truth”. Nevertheless, there are also instances when this “truth” is not objective, but merely a veiled fantasy incapable of fully describing the complexity of the situation it attempts to define. Thus, simulated and psuedo-concrete imagery such as extreme religiosity, political propaganda, mass media, nationalism, etc. are perhaps only manageable, yet illusory attempts of filling this conceptual void. Are we then slaves to the fantasy and seduction of words and images, or, subjects vying to redefine them? This interdisciplinary (and hopefully multi-media) conference will explore the relationship and tension between imagery, metaphor, and rhetoric in creating, maintaining, and framing social reality(s)
Posted by Randall at April 18, 2005 10:49 AM