What Images Do
Symposium

Confirmed keynotes:
Georges Didi-Huberman - Jonathan Hay - Jacques Rancière

The aim of this symposium is to contribute to our understanding of what
the image does (its pragma). The awkward entanglement of being and
non-being (Plato) calls for an examination of the image as an act or
event. Through its event, the image-act instigates an image-related
reflection upon the issues of being and non-being, physis and semiosis,
actuality and potentiality. The concept of iconic difference as coined
by art historian and philosopher Gottfried Boehm is vital to our
concern. Iconic difference embraces an internal effect in the formation
of images as an entanglement of being and non-being, matter/perception,
imagination/representation, but also externally in the relations between
images, language, and concepts.

Today, educational institutions within the fields of art, design, and
architecture may no longer simply approach image making intuitively, but
are requested to engage in a dialogue with academic research and
science. Such primarily verbal discourse may, at best, support rather
than suppress insights into the unique potentials of the image. Yet a
prolific dialogue would not sustain the identity of the image as an
already established reality (as re-presentation), but moreover
articulate the particular behaviours of the image.

This three-day symposium brings together scholars from the fields of
art, design, and architecture in order to discuss images theories and
their implications to these fields. Papers may address topic such as:

- Iconic difference
- The epistemology of images
- The affect of images
- Images and time
- Art and the image
- Architecture and the image
- Design and the image

Submit your abstract (max. 400 words + a short CV) to Martin Søberg,
martin.sobergkadk.dk by November 1, 2013. NB: There will be a moderate
registration fee for participation in this symposium, covering lunches
and a symposium dinner, etc.

WHAT IMAGES DO follows upon the work of an international research
network established in 2012 in collaboration between NCCR Iconic
Criticism 'eikones' in Basel, TU Delft, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The network and its activities
are funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities
(FKK).