Visual Culture: Between Obedience and Resistance

Shenkar Conference 2014

Department of Cultural Studies

Visual Culture: Between Resistance and Obedience

The conference aims to explore “obedience” and “resistance” as key concepts in the study of visual culture from a variety of perspectives—national, political, ethnic, class, and gender. This interdisciplinary conference asks what roles obedience and resistance might play in the production and dissemination of a visual image? Does the image obey or resist the visual order? How can a focus on these dichotomous concepts contribute to our understanding of the distinction between reality and its representations?

Sunday 30.3.2014

17:30 Gathering and Exhibition Opening of “Activestills”

18:00 Greetings: Prof. Yarom Vardimon, Dean of Faculty of Design, Shenakr, and the Israel                                           Prize laureate for design in 2007

18:15 Opening Lecture: The Ghosts of Revolution, Prof. David Crowley, Royal College of Art, London

Monday 31.3.2014

9:30 Gathering

10:00 Greetings: Prof. Yuli Tamir, President of Shenkar

10:15– 11:30  Session 1: Tradition and Innovation

                        Chair: Michalle Gal

The Visual Image as a Necessity and as an Ideology of Necessity: Philosophical Aspects

Moshe Zuckermann, Tel-Aviv University

Tradition and Innovation in Flying Witches by Francisco Goya

Guy Tal, Shenkar

To Leave or Remove: Protest against Art in the Public Space

Ronit Steinberg, Bezalel, Israel Museum

12:00 – 13:30  Session 2: Commercialization and Subversion

                        Chair: Leah Perez

Order versus Intuition in Children’s Israeli Comic Books

Yirmi Pinkus, Shenkar

Against the Power: The “Babel” Publishers as Designing Activism

Dekel Bobrov, Shenkar

14:45 – 16:30 Session 3: Space and Ideology

                        Chair: Michal Chacham

Neo-Liberal Visibility: The Israeli Suburban Space

Tamar Berger, Bezalel, Technion

On the Foundation of the New Jewish National Fund (JNF)

Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, “Zochrot” (Remembering) Association

From Arcadia to the City of Ariel: The Concealed Politics of the Naïve Landscape

Larry Abramson, Shenkar

Photography, Search, Manipulation

Yanai Toister, Sidney University, Bezalel, Shenkar

17:00 – 18:30  Session 4: Identity and Alienation

                        Chair: Sivan Shtang

Why Women Wearing Burka Laugh? From Kafka to Modern Fashion

Dana Keren Yaar, Seminar Hakibutzim

Enlightened Sexism and New Racism in Representations of Eastern Women in the Israeli T.V. series “Amamiot”

Merav Alush Levron, Tel-Aviv University