Deborah Roberts, Subject America 3, 2021.
Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 65 X 45 in. (165,1 x 114,3 cm)
© Deborah Roberts

Thursday, July 3rd - Pôle Juridique et Judiciaire, Place Pey Berland Bordeaux (PJJ Université de Bordeaux) - Amphithéâtre ELLUL et salle RG

9h Opening of the conference

9h30 - 11h  Embodied images in virtual worlds

Fabrizia Bandi: “Image as Space: Perception, Presence, and Artistic Remediations in Virtual Reality”

Margherita Fontana: “Imagining the face of the “cave man”: Some cases of hyper-unrealism in Paleoart (but not only)”

 Evi Roumani: “Images now: Performing the real”

11h-11h30 Coffee break

11h30 - 12h30  KEYNOTE Maryse Ouellet: “The Politics of Appearances: Why Art Matters in the Age of Digital Opacity”

12h45 - 14h15 Lunch Break (en ville)

14h30 - 16h (Re)Generating popular culture through digital iconography       

Ilan Manouach: “Generative Palimpsests: The Feature Space of Synthetic Comics”

Hui Wang: “Cartoon Art at the Turn of the Millenium: Art, Counterculture, Globality, and Metaverse of the Spectacle”

Louise Bouvet-Zieleskiewicz: “Figures virtuelles et réalités fuyantes: le cinéma vidéoludique de Poggi & Vinel face aux nouvelles images”

16h - 16h30 Coffee break

16h30 - 17h30 Shifting visualities in figurative art

 Xavier Bourgine: “La Peinture 100 réels: copier, coller, rogner et fixer le monde à l’heure l’IA”

 Andrés Franco Harnache: “Literary visuality in the age of AI: Ross Goodwin’s 1 the Road”

20h Dinner in town

Friday, July 4th - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux (MSH Bordeaux) – Domaine Universitaire PESSAC

9h - 11h Post-factual historical (counter)narratives

 Louis Boulet: “Document reality or complicate it? Functions of figuration in Ahlam Shibli’s work”

 Camille Rouquet: “Iconic Distortions: The Role of Historical Photographs in Shaping American Visual Identity”

 Elpida Ziavra: “Figuring (out) the Human in the Photographic Portraits of Keisha Scarville’s lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound”

11h - 11h30 Coffee break

11h30 - 12h30 KEYNOTE  Andrea Pinotti: “Self-Negating Images. An-Icons and the Promises of Virtuality”

12h30 - 14h Lunch Break

14h - 15h30 Deconstructing or Reconstructinng landscape photography?

 Miles Jordan: “Visualizing Climate Change: Infrared Photography as a Tool for Reinterpreting Reality”

Rodrigo Fontanari: “Jouer avec la poéticité du monde: visions et simulations du monde à partir des travaux de Kevin Abosche”

Tanguy Gatay: “Ce que la virtualité fait au réel - à propos du travail de François Bellabas”

Conclusion of the conference