This doctoral seminal proposes to reflect on the practices of narration developped through the arts during the Cold War period (1947-1991) or in relation to it. We are expecting proposals from PhD candidates to participate on April 19th, 2017 at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona.
News
Videos of the IV International Meeting on Digital Art History and Artistic Culture (Málaga, Dec. 2016)
The video recordings of the IV International Meeting on Digital Art History and Artistic Culture (December 15th to 17th, 2016, Málaga) are available online! MoDe(s) participated in the session “Digital Methodologies and Epistemological Transformations in Art-Historical Scholarship.”
Conference by Julia Ramírez Blanco in Barcelona on January 18th
Researcher Julia Ramírez Blanco will give the conference “Utopias of Revolt: Reading activist aesthetics through the lens of the social dream”, Wednesday 18 January, 1 p.m at the Facultad de Geografía e Historia de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Contribution of Jaime Vindel in the journal Re-visiones
It is now possible to read online the last issue of the journal Re-visiones, “Politics of the Image, Fictions of the Common.” Jaime Vindel contributed to the main dossier with his essay “Fictions of the “As Not”: Messianic vocations of the common for a world beyond work and aesthetics.”
MoDe(s) at the IV International Meeting on Digital Art History in Malaga
This Meeting in Malaga from December 15th to 17th, 2016 develops a forum to discuss researches and projects developed at the intersection between art historical studies, computational technologies and digital media. MoDe(s) is participating with the lecture “Exploring Digital Resources to Map Art, Counterculture and Politics during the Cold War.”
Research Seminar Canon(s) in Dispute – Conclusions
A summary of MoDe(s)’ Research Seminar of November 23rd at the Facultat de Geografía e Historia of the Universitat de Barcelona, dedicated to the notion of canon and its multiple manifestations. Among the topics, Latinamerican modern art, art in the Spanish state over the 1970s, feminist and gender perspectives questioning the canon, and more!
PRISME’s first symposium in Rennes – “Between sciences and fiction”
The first symposium of the PRISME program “Entre sciences et fiction: la critique d’art à l’épreuve des mutations technologiques” (Between sciences and fiction: art criticism proofed by technological mutations), will take place on December 1st, 2016 in Rennes, France, with the participation of MODe(s) and Paula Barreiro López.
Canon(s) in dispute: The narratives of modernity and their conflicts
On November 23rd, 2016 from 9.45 till 18, Universitat de Barcelona. This seminar seeks to deepen the specific processes through which the modern canon is created, delving also into conflictive models that attempted to challenge its legitimacy. Through the contrasted study of cases, we will seek to create a common framework of reflection on the processes of construction and deconstruction of the canon.
MoDe(s) at the Symposium “One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992”
The International Conference “One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992” will take place on November 24, 25 and 26, 2016 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. MoDe(s) reseachers Paula Barreiro Lopez (IP) and Juliane Debeusscher participate in the panel “Networks and Encounters” (25 Nov.)
