Thursday talk: Cultural Politics of the Image in Latin America
<p> The International Literary and Cultural Studies Research Forum presents its final talk of the semester:</p> <p> "Cultural Politics of the Image: Digital Snapshots of/from Latin America"</p> <p> to be given by Dr. Angelica Huizar, Associate Professor of Spanish, and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion.</p> <p> Thursday November 15, 12:30-1:30pm, BAL 9024 (Burgess Room)<br /> <br /> <br /> Abstract: Today our interest in visual culture is technological and interdisciplinary in nature, where the image is highly politicized in often critical representations of culture and society. The focus will be the work of Latin American digital artists (here seen as poets) of the Millennium generation. My approach to these inquiries will include the visual, rhetorical, semiotic, iconological, and cultural analyses of Fernando Llanos' video installations whose work combines the poetics of video-art, video-gaming, biotechnology and reference to comics. Llanos' work creates extrapolated narratives with meta-images and meta-discourses all while articulating a social critique of ideologies and myths. I propose his video-installations as examples of the emerging field of digital poetics given that his work experiments with visual expression and introspective reflection of cultural meaning, transforming what we recognize as poetic activity into a dialectic of its own techno system based on the artistic, cinematic, acoustic, and theatrical symbolic processes that are adopted, adapted and translated in a variety of media, across borders, and among cultures.</p> <p> All welcome!</p> <p> For more information about the Research Forum, please contact Dr. Liz Black: eblack@odu.edu</p>
Posted By: Elizabeth Black
Date: Wed Nov 14 14:39:31 EST 2012