Call for Papers/ Art Presentations
Seminar in Visual Culture

Theme 2009: Money Money Money

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study,
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square,
WC1B 5DN London

The seminar aims to create a forum for practicing artists, researchers,
curators, students, and others interested in visual culture to present,
discuss and explore the various aspects of a given theme within the field.
In 2009, to keep apace with the present credit-crunching times, the theme
is Money.
While the media are providing us with endless analyses of the credit
crisis from all imaginable economic angles, it is now perhaps time to look
at how artists and writers are responding to Nasdaq and FTSE100, to shiny
coins and colourful banknotes and to the repetitive images of worried
brokers shouting into their mobile phones. After all, money is itself an
object of design and has long been the subject of the creative arts and
the credit crunch has not only inspired economists and journalists.
The seminar aims to look at the relationship between art, money and the
everyday â?? in times of crisis and of affluence.
Sessions will include screenings of artist films on the theme, followed by
one or two speakers and time for discussion. The seminar offers
opportunities for artists to present new (and existing) work.

Please send proposals for art presentations (200 words plus images) or
academic papers (200 words) to Ricarda Vidal: ricarda.vidalsas.ac.uk

Dates and times:
6.30pm - 8.00pm: Thursday 29 Jan, Thursday 26 Feb, Wednesday 25 Mar,
Thursday 28 May, Wednesday 24 June

Dr Ricarda Vidal

49 Dalmeny Road
London N7 0DY
United Kingdom

phone: 0044 (0)20 7263 0369
mobile: 0044 079 4045 8535