REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE.
International Conference 2023.
4th Edition:
IMAGE, ARCHIVE & CONFLICT
(Im)material Ecologies in the Digital Age

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

FRIDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER
ONLINE | 10:00am - 6:00pm (WEST)

10 am
WELCOME, by Ana Catarina Pinho

10:10 am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
PROF. ANNA MARÍA GUASCH, University of Barcelona, Spain
"The Performative Archive: The material, immaterial and corporeal in archive-conflict relations."

Chair: Laura Singeot, Reims University, France

11:30 am
PANEL 1: The Past made Present: Visualising conflict through aesthetic forms of representation
Chair: Ana Catarina Pinho, IHA, Nova University of Lisbon

Speakers:

"Photography, Montage, and Archive: An atlas of a dictatorship and its landscapes"
Gustavo Balbela, Independent Researcher

"Rethinking the ‘temporal turn’ in contemporary art: Artist’s concept of history and their use of archive photography in tackling dissonant Portuguese past"
Joana Brites, University of Coimbra, Portugal

"Presenting the past into the present: Artistic interventions into archives in the former Yugoslavia"
Paul Lowe, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom

12:30 pm
PANEL 2: Gaps, Dissonances, and Fictional Imaginaries in Archival Practices
Chair: Arola Valls, University of Barcelona, Spain

Speakers:

"Sonny Assus’s intervention on the imaginary: Mediating postcolonial and aesthetic theory"
Sadie Barker, Concordia University, Canada

"Appropriation / Re-mediation: On artistic strategies dealing with violence in contemporary Latin American art."
Elena Rosauro, University of Zurich, Switzerland

"Archival intervention to remediate the biased representation of black britishness: The case of passion of remembrance (1986) by Sankofa film and video collective"
María Piqueras-Pérez, University of Murcia, Spain

1:30pm - 2pm — BREAK

2 pm
PANEL 3: Contesting Narratives: Archives and atlases as productive spaces
Chair: Estefani Bouza, Swansea College of Art, University of Wales

Speakers:

"Permeable membranes: The archive in visual atlas constructions"
Amalia Caputo Dodge, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

"A gender studies approach on the mnemosyne atlas as a living archive"
Daniela Cifuentes Acevedo, Independent researcher

"The archive in the digital age and its major challenges: EXIT, a case study"
Manuel Padín Fernández, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

3 pm
PANEL 4: Digital Utopia-Dystopia in Untimely Archives: Diasporic memories and colonial ghosts
Chair: Marianna Tsionki, Leeds Arts University, United Kingdom

Speakers:

"Revelations and Cover-ups of the Digital Arkhé: The Archive Fever in amateur homemovie. A study case in the forensic desktop film 'Filme Particular' "
Bárbara Bergamaschi Novaes, PPGCOM-UFRJ / CIEBA, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

"John Akomfrah and the Digital Specters of Diaspora"
Rodrigo Sombra, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul - UFMS,Brazil

"Archives and Distopias in Ceilândia: The poetic montage of 'Mato Seca em Chamas' "
Eduarda Kuhnert, Independent Researcher, Brazil

4 pm
PANEL 5: Meta-Visions and Digital Dynamics: Unveiling the digital paradigm within historical archives
Chair: Chiara Juriatti, Katholische Privat-Universität Linz, Austria

Speakers:

"Generative Photography and the Common Human Ancestor"
Ana Peraica, Danube University

"Archiving practices as a form of resistance: The digital archives of the Arab Uprisings"
Alessandra Fredianelli, Università di Genova, Italy

"Safeguarding the Critical Moment: Maintaining relational values between images when digitising the London bomb damage photograph archive 1940-1945"
Jane McArthur, University of Edinburgh and Imperial War Museum, London

5 pm
GUEST SPEAKER
EMERIC LHUISSET Visual artist, France
"Showing the war, a contemporary approach"

Chair: Ana Catarina Pinho, IHA, Nova University of Lisbon

6 pm — CLOSING SESSION
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SATURDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER
ONLINE | 10:00am - 5:00pm (WEST)

10 am
WELCOME, by Ana Catarina Pinho

10:10 am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. SARA CALLAHAN, University of Stockholm, Sweden
"The Permeable Image: Empathy, archival theory and contemporary artistic practice"

Chair: Annalisa Laganà, Università della Calabria, Italy

11:30 am
PANEL 6: Murder, Massacre, and Surveillance Images: the archive as a tool for activating memory and agency of bodies in the public space
Chair: Marta Labad, University of Technology, Arts and Design, Spain

Speakers:

"Beyond the Index: Visual tools for memory activation"
Filipe Figueiredo, European University, Portugal / Laura Peralta, European University, Portugal

"Gladys has been killed: Analysis of the visual archive of a murder"
Jone Rubio Mazkiaran, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain

"Turning the Gaze: The right to opacity of surveillance images in protest contexts"
Mayra Villavicencio Principe, ESCAC, University of Barcelona, Spain

12:30 pm
PANEL 7: Reframing Memory, Identity, and Life through Contemporary Archival Art
Chair: Annalisa Laganà, Università della Calabria, Italy

Speakers:

"Archival Alchemy: Transmuting trauma through artistic reinterpretation"
Elián Stolarsky, Universidad Complutense, Spain

"Dor Guez’s Scanograms: Archiving the virtual"
Elisabeth R. Friedman, Illinois State University, United States

"Follow Y/our River: A protocol for deep mapping liminal space"
Paula Roush, London South Bank University, United Kingdom

1:30pm - 2pm — BREAK

2 pm
PANEL 8: Materiality and memory in the digital age
Chair: Santasil Mallik, Western University

Speakers:

"Materiality and Memory in the Digital Age: Archive reappropriation in Takeshi Murata’s work"
Alexandre Gouin, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Zombies, Glitch and the Pandemic: Digitally melting the world through a fictional archive"
Nicholas Andueza, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

"Hacking the Technology and the Archives: Jacques Perconte’s intersection of datamoshing and neo-impressionist aesthetics"
Lucas Murari, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3 pm
PANEL 9: Archiving Chaos, Zoning and Invisibilising, Datifying Behaviours: Other visualities in the control society
Chair: Pablo Santa Ollala, IHA, Nova University of Lisbon

Speakers:

"Exploring Traumatic Images, Test Records, and the Archive: Deciphering spatial relationships, new realities, and the chaotic image"
Sebnem Cakalogullari, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

"Forgotten Images: Neighborhoods through Youtube videos"
Joel Peláez, University of La Laguna

"Datafication, Surveillance and New Media technology in urban classrooms: A study based in New Delhi, India"
Shruti Nagpal, AJK Mass Communication Research Center, JMI New Delhi, India

4 pm
GUEST SPEAKER
PEDRO LAGOA, Visual artist, Portugal

Conflict = energy = life = friction = energy = life.
No conflict, no energy, no life.
the archive of destruction

Chair: Marta Labad, University of Technology, Arts and Design, Spain

5 pm — CLOSING SESSION
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