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.”
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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.)
A presentation from Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez at Saint Louis University Madrid
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez will present her research project developped in the framework of MoDe(s) at Saint Louis University Madrid, Thursday 17 November: “Art and politics, politics and art in the cultural battles of the Cold War.”
Last Multimedia updates
New audio and video archives are now available in MoDe(s)’ Multimedia section: the keynote by Mark Nash in the framework of the Cold Atlantic seminar, MoDe(s)’ communication at the International Colloquium in Geohumanities…and more!
Disaster: art, ethics and politics – A conversation
Juan Albarrán Diego and Carles Guerra were invited to dialogue about the issue of violence and its representations in the framework of the program “Evocations of Ruin”, which questions the absences and ethical failures of the Spanish democracy when it deals with its past of war and dictatorship.
