CONF 01.11.2011

Tracing the Index (CAA, Los Angeles, 22-25 Feb 12)

Los Angeles, 22.–25.02.2012

Mirjam Wittmann

CAA 100th Annual Conference Los Angeles, February 22-25, 2012
http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/

Tracing the Index - in Art History and Media Theory

Jeanette Kohl, University of California, Riverside; Mirjam Wittmann, Freie Universität Berlin
Email: jkohlucr.edu and mirjam.wittmanngmail.com

Historically, the index-concept harks back to Charles Sanders Peirce, yet it has remained a pivotal element in a variety of discourses. Since Rosalind Krauss introduced the index to characterize appropriative strategies in American art of the 1970's, the term has gained momentum, especially in the theory of photography. The index makes an essential point of departure to investigate art historical and theoretical issues of reproduction, trace, and touch in a triple way: as a heuristic paradigm in image history, as a category of image production, and as a phenomenon of material and media culture. We invite contributions analyzing the ‘index’ from a variety of angles. It is the aim of our panel to shed more light on historical and contemporary concepts of ‘indexicality’: between text and image, theory and practice, performativity and preservation. Papers may address indexical matters and/or strategies in the (visual, performing, verbal) arts, from the Renaissance up to now.

Panel 1

Claire Farago
Towards an Archeology of the Index

Noa Turel
Saint Veronica Iconography and the Indexicality Paradigm 1350-1650

Birgit Hopfener
Negotiating Indexicality in Chinese Moving Image Installations

Brendan Fay
The Monochrome and the Blank Photograph

Hagi Kenaan
Trace and Disappearance

(Discussant: Lisa Saltzman)

Panel 2

Nathaniel Jones
The Mistaken Index in the Agentive Image

Evan Neely
The Grammar of Autobiographical Indication. Cy Twombly’s Practice as a Painter and Photographer

James Nisbet
Anti Form, Active Matter, and the Formation of Art History’s Ontological Index

Joris van Gastel
Indexicality and Extending the Artistic Mind into the Workshop: The Case of the Baroque Bozzetto

Alesandra Kokoli
The Human Voice as Uncanny Index in Contemporary Art: Notes on The Last Silent Movie (2007)

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Tracing the Index (CAA, Los Angeles, 22-25 Feb 12). In: ArtHist.net, 01.11.2011. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2160>.

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