Student Summer Symposium 2009
Reading Images: Frames and Frameworks
AAH Student Members' Summer Symposium 2009
University of Bristol, 23rd and 24th June
Keynote speaker: Dr Mike O’Mahony (University of Bristol)
Conference Abstract:
A good deal of time and effort is spent on interpreting representation. At the same time, modes of interpretation and representation each formulate their own frameworks as a means of navigating through the complexities of reading and viewing art. But what is there to be seen, and what critically found within the layers of reading?
The frame is a contested space: a site of neutrality and comment, of discourse and ownership, of authorship and institutionalisation. In their materiality, frames contain and present the image; as a methodology, frameworks grant access to, and shape our understanding of, the object in question.
This year’s AAH Summer Symposium wishes to explore the ways in which we read images. Across the span of histories, places, and modalities of art as part of a visual culture, the ways of approaching the image become essential to what we come to comprehend as ‘the image’, its limits and boundaries.
Full programme is available online (PDF)
To book tickets click here.
Ticket price: £15, or £25 for a ticket inclusive of conference dinner at Oz in Bristol.
Please note that this event is only open to AAH Members. To join, please visit http://www.aah.org.uk/membership
Booking deadline: 10 June 2009.
For information on accommodation in Bristol click here.