


- Visual
Studies in the 21st Century
1st
International Visual Studies Conference
- 15th
and 16th February, 2004
- ARCO
International Contemporary Art Fair,
- IFEMA,
Madrid
The
1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during ARCO'04,
- organised
by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration with the Cen-
- tro
Porraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by José Luis
Brea,
- Professor
of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de Castilla-La
- Mancha.
The Conference will feature a series of Plenary Lectures presented
- by
some of the most important academics and historians who have been do-
- ing
internationally recognised work on Visual Studies and Visual Culture. A
- group
of specialists will also present a set of preliminary papers on some
- crucial
issues in the nascent field of Visual Studies, organising the debates
- into
different panel discussion areas. Attendance and participation are open
- to
professors, advanced level students, researchers, and those member of
- the
art and university community who are interested in attending or present-
- ing
a paper. An Advisory Committee is responsible for accepting papers and
- organising
these presentations into different areas. Lecturers will include
- Norman
Bryson, Hal Foster, Susan Buck-Morss, W.J.T. Mitchell, Nicholas Mir-
- zoeff
and Keith Moxey.
The
Conference's organisers will co-ordinate a publication of what they con-
- sider
the highlights of those papers presented.
For
more information see
- http://www.visualstudies.net
