Symposium on the Pensive Image

a Jan van Eyck event

31 mrt 2006

Ultimately, photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. - Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
With lectures by James Elkins (Art institute of Chicago), Rineke Dijkstra (NL), Peter Piller (DE), Ursula Frohne (Academy of Design, Karlsruhe).

To what extent are images able to think autonomously? If they can, what are they thinking about? What are the connections between vision and thought, artistic and non-artistic imagery, painting and photography and watching images while being watched by them?

Admission to the symposium is free, registration via Madeleine Bisscheroux: 043 350 3729

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