Books
Visual Ethnography, Vol. 3, n. 1, June 2014 > www.vejournal.org
First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini\’s deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining contemporary art and its role in society is an ever more complicated endeavor
Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical challenges arising from experimental film for anthropology, and vice versa, through a number of contact zones: trance, emotions and the senses, materiality and time, non-narrative content and montage. Experimental film and cinema are understood in this book as broad, inclusive categories covering many technical formats and historical traditions, to investigate the potential for new common practices.
“Il existe aujourd’hui un intérêt croissant pour l’anthropologie visuelle, même si personne ne sait très bien ce que c’est. Son nom même est un acte de foi, comme un costume qui a été acheté un petit peu trop grand dans l’espoir de grandir avec. En fait, ce terme recouvre un certain nombre d’intérêts fort différents…” (David MacDougall)
The Flame. Searching for Gold in Crestone (76 min.) a film by Sean Owen Tweet #visualanthropology
Digital images have today, in many parts of the world, become ubiquitous. We consume and produce them daily through our computers, smart-pads and mobile phones. Yet, to what extent do such practices intervene upon the politics of our everyday lives? Can digital-imaging practices really help us constructing a more just world? And, more specifically, can digital images help bringing about instances of empowerment among marginalized individuals and groups?
Summary Johanna C. Scherer Artifact Identification Using Historical Photographs: The case of red Cloud’s Mankin Siobhan Campbell Anthony Forge in Bali: The Making of a Museum Collection REVIEW ESSAY Antonio Marazzi An Encyclopedic Art Biennale in Venice BOOK REVIEWS Micah Trippe Programming Film Festivals Paul Hockings Translating Museums Tweet #visualanthropology
Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice.
Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the ‘visual turn’ and the ‘material turn’. This book argues that these hitherto distinct fields should be understood as in continual dialogue and co-constitution and focuses on reconceptualising the visual as an embodied, material, and often politically-charged realm.
Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise.
EURORAMA 8, 2014
One Europe of peoples in ethnographic film festivals
Trento 27th – 28th April 2014
Filming the other, filming the intangibile
To the far east of Europe: Russians and Romanians horizons
International Urban Photography Summer School, 2014
Goldsmiths, University of London
Designed for photographers, artists and ethnographers whose work addresses notions of urban space and culture, the international Urban Photography Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice.
EURORAMA 8, 2014
One Europe of peoples in ethnographic film festivals
Trento 27th – 28th April 2014
Filming the other, filming the intangibile
To the far east of Europe: Russians and Romanians horizons
Convegno-Rassegna MAV 2014 Materiali di Antropologia Visiva 27-28-29 novembre 2014 a cura di Emilia De Simoni, Vito Di Bernardi, Laura Faranda, Francesco Giannattasio, Giovanni Giuriati, Antonello Ricci Call for movies Il Convegno-Rassegna MAV, storico appuntamento biennale di antropologia visiva, è stato ideato da Diego Carpitella nel 1985 al Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari…
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SIEFF – Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival XVI International Ethnographic Film Festival 22-27 September, 2014, NUORO (Italy) Registrations for the Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival (SIEFF 2014) have started! Entry Rules, Entry Form (to be filled-in on line) and more information on the Festival will be found at our homepage: www.isresardegna.it Submit your film Tweet…
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The 34th NAFA Film Festival and Symposium/workshop Iceland, June 4-8, 2014 Deadline is 6 April. Online entry form can be found on nativemind.org. We welcome you to the 34th NAFA Film Festival 2014, with the symposium / workshop “Sharing a Common Story”. This year’s film festival will take place in Ísafjördur (Iceland) and will be…
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La 11ème édition du Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) aura lieu à Québec et Montréal, du 13 au 23 mars. Pour plus d’information, consultez notre tout nouveau site web ou aimez notre page Facebook. www.fifeq.ca The International Ethnographic Film Festival of Québec will be from March 13th to March 24th in Montreal…
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Journal of Video Ethnography Call for Reviewers The newly launched Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) is a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center. JVE is the first ever peer-reviewed journal of ethnographic films and videos. The aim of this journal is to advance the social scientific use of video/film as a method for…
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DOC ONLINE – Revista Digital ed Cinema Documentario http://www.doc.ubi.pt/ n. 15 (12/2013) DOCUMENTÁRIO E HISTÓRIA Tweet #visualanthropology
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Summary Johanna C. Scherer Artifact Identification Using Historical Photographs: The case of red Cloud’s Mankin Siobhan Campbell Anthony Forge in Bali: The Making of a Museum Collection REVIEW ESSAY Antonio Marazzi An Encyclopedic Art Biennale in Venice BOOK REVIEWS Micah Trippe Programming Film Festivals Paul Hockings Translating Museums Tweet #visualanthropology
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Visual Anthropology Volume 27, Numbers 1-2 Reflections on the Lens Isabelle de Rezende Elsewhere in the Belgian Congo ca. 1953: Luc de Heusch Films the Tetela-Hamba Wesley Mathew Reality in Ethnographic Film: Documentary vs. Docudrama Daniela Vavrova Cinema in the Bush Maureen T. Schwartz Searching for a Feminist Western: The Searchers, The Hired Hand Giulia…
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