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