Symposium Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War |
Organized by Séamus Kealy, Blackwood Gallery and John Paul Ricco, Professor at the Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Univeristy of Toronto Mississauga. Recorded January 25th 2008 at the MiST Theatre, University of Toronto Mississauaga. Click to view videos.
Keynote Speaker
W.J.T. Mitchell Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Graib
W.J.T. Mitchell is Gaylord Gonnellley Distinguished Services professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry
Panel One
Allan Harding MacKay Double Bind
Allan Harding MacKay is a visual artist working in Canada.
Brigitte van der Sande Amsterdam at War
Brigitte van der Sande is an independent curator working in the Netherlands.
Irene Loughlin The Sun is Crooked in the Sky
Irene Loughlin is a graduate student at the University of Toronto.
Panel Two
Stephen F. Eisenman Water-Torture
Stephen F. Eisenman is a professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Chicago.
Boris Groys Europe and Its Others
Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics at the ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.