Visual Culture and Wars of Public Safety and Terror

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 17:45 by .

Visual Culture and Wars of Public Safety and Terror:
A Dialogue with Nicholas Mirzoeff and Allen Feldman

A public lecture organised by the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice in the Dublin Institute of Technology Faculty of Applied Arts
Date: Thursday, 15th June
Time: 8.00 - 10.00 pm
Venue: Irish Film Institute

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor in the Visual Culture Programme, Arts and Arts Professions, New York University. His research interests include: Visual Culture, Bodyscapes, Disability Studies, Diaspora, and Human Rights His publications include: Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture (Routledge, 2004); An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999); Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign and Visual Culture in Modern France (Princeton University Press, 1995).

Allen Feldman is Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. His research interests include: Visual Culture, Performance Ethnography, and Anthropology of the Senses and the Body. His publications include: Ground Zero Point One: On the Cinematics of History (Duke University Press, 2006): ‘The Actuarial Gaze: from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib’ (Cultural Studies, 2005); Formations of Violence the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (University of Chicago Press, 1991).

This public lecture forms part of a postgraduate summer school programme in media practice-led research with New York University and the Dublin Institute of Technolgy's Centre for Transcultural Research, titled: The Global City and Media Ethnography. The curriculum is aimed at postgraduate students from diverse disciplines who want to explore creative media practice as a research methodology. The programme brings together a multi-national cohort of scholars/practitioners/artists working with media ethnography, visual culture, performance theory, digital imaging technologies, network environments, and practicing field research on the interlinked topics of migration, transculturalism, globalization, diaspora identities, the post-colonial and human rights.