Friday 28 November 2008, 10.00–18.00

Media-culture is an undeniable force in our lives. Its pervasive and pleasurable power has primarily been located in discourses on ‘spectacle’ and the persistent connections between technology and power in democracy. But when artworks can be seen to share the same experiential field as media-culture, both using and producing a media-culture, the question of how our experiences of it constitute the political is now imperative. How do media-culture and artworks, and the spaces they inhabit, produce and reform the naturalised and assumed realities of everyday praxis?

The research group Curating Video invite nine speakers from the fields of visual arts, art history, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore a new matrix of issues that have become crucial to the understanding of the affect of mediated images in our lives. Rethinking the power of fact that images generate, this conference seeks to put forth new dialogues, strategies and propositions to explore what is now at stake for a politics of the mediated image.

10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee

10.30-10.45 Introduction

10.45-11 Introduction by Curating Video - Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media

11-12.30 Panel 1 - Artworks: Art as Media Culture

12.30-13.30  Lunch (not included)

13.30-15.00 Panel 2 - Experiential: Image - Space

15.00-15.15 Break

15.15-16.45  Panel 3 - Force: Images in Action

16.45-17.45  Discussion

17.45 Book launch and reception

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£35 (£25 concessions), booking recommended
Includes drinks reception at the launch of the new book 'Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-Based Media'.