International conference IMAGE OPERATIONS

Some images intervene directly in the world and change it infar-reaching ways. As components of media practices, they generateevents, impacting immediately and concretely on people and bodies.Image operations such as these are particularly striking in the caseof war, terrorist attacks, and the political campaigns of NGOs – butalso in medicine. The international conference Image Operations bringstogether leading scholars to discuss the constitutive role of imagesand their ethical implications. The conference is organised byCharlotte Klonk (Art History, Humboldt University) and Jens Eder(Media Studies, University of Mannheim), and carried out incooperation with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin.

Program (PDF):http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Program-Image-Operations.pdf

Ort:ICI Kulturlabor Berlin Christinenstraße 18/19, Haus 810119 Berlinhttp://www.ici-berlin.org/

Reference / Quellennachweis:CONF: Image Operations (Berlin, 10-12 Apr 14). In: H-ArtHist, Mar 7, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/7140>.