Program ’What is an Image?’ (April 9 and 10, 2015)

April 9 2015

1. 8.45: Registration 
2. 9.00: Introduction and welcome (Bent Fausing) 
3. 9:10: Lev Manovich (New York): “The Images of Big Data” (85 min. incl. discussion 15 min.) Keynote.
4. 10:35: Andreas Stæhr (Copenhagen): “The Symbols Played” (25 min. incl. discussion 5 min.)
5. 11:00: Coffee
6. 11:15: Bent Fausing (Copenhagen): “The Image. The Currency of our Soul” (45 min. incl. discussion 10 min.)
7. 12:00: Lunch
8. 13:00: Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen (Copenhagen): “’emo-slut selfies’ – Caspar Eric, poetic imagery, and the relation between digital and print” (25 min. incl. discussion, 5 min.)
9. 13:25: Fred L’Epee (Athens/Genève) “Pathology of the Images” (45 min. incl. discussion 10 min.)
10. 14:10: Coffee
11. 14:30: James Elkins (Chicago)”What was and is an Image” (85 min. incl. discussion, 15 minutes). Keynote.
12. 16.00 Thank you. See You tomorrow.

April 10 2015

1. 9:00: Joanna Zylinska (London): “What Is an Image When There's No One To See It?: Photography after the Human” (85 min. incl. discussion, 15 min.). Keynote. 
2. 10:25: Louise Yung Nielsen (Ålborg/Copenhagen): “Fashion blogging: Body image and media” (25 min. incl. discussion, 5 min.)
3. 10:50: Coffee
4. 11:05: Jesper Juul (Copenhagen) “The Return of the Big Pixel: The changing Meaning of Graphics in Independent Video Games” (25 min. incl. discussion, 5 min.)
5. 11:30: Lunch
6. 12:30: Toni Hildebrandt (Basel) “On Gestures and Images Made by Chance. On Cage’s and Anastasi’s Drawings” (25 min. incl. discussion, 5 min.)
7. 12:55: Troels Degn Johansen (Copenhagen) “Programmatic Images: Rikke Luther’s Learning Site Posters and the Iconoclasm of Relational art” (45 min. incl. discussion, 10 min.).
8. 13:40: Coffee
9. 14.00: Farida Vis (Sheffield) “Visual Social Media Lab” (45 min. incl. discussion, 10 min.) with Anne Burns and Simon Faulkner.
10. 14:45: Panel (Jim Elkins, Fred L’Epee, Lev Manovich, Farida Vis and Joanna Zylinska)
11. 16.00: Good-bye and Thank You, Bent Fausing.