Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 9:15 am – Friday, 25 May 2018 at 5:00 pm

Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945

A conference on the intersections of conflict and pictures from the end of the Second World War to the present day.

Since the end of the Second World War, the nature and depiction of geopolitical conflicts have changed in technology, scale and character. The Cold War political landscape saw many anti-colonial struggles for liberation and national identity become proxy battlegrounds for the major powers. Wars continue to be waged in the name of democracy and terror, and in the interests of linguistic, theological and racial worldviews and migration and displacement are again at the top of the agenda.

As the technologies of war have shifted, so have the technologies of making pictures. This conference seeks to engage with these phenomena through critically engaged approaches to the processes of visualisation, their methodologies and epistemologies to contribute to our understanding of the ways conflicts are pictured. The intention is to expand the field of enquiry beyond localised, thematic or media-specific approaches and to encourage new perspectives on the material and visual cultures of pictures.

Keynote Speaker

Oliver Chanarin, from artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin - "The Bureaucracy of Angels"

Conference Cost and Registration

£75.00 per day. £120.00 for two-days

Students Cost: £15.00 one day, £25.00 for two-days and £40.00 for all three days

(Prices include tea/coffee/refreshments and 2x course hot lunch buffet with desert)

For more information on conference themes, scheduling and speakers, see: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2018/the-pictures-of-war/