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[DOCUWALLAHS2] Culture Cafe: The Present Image—A Talk by Dr. Paolo SH Favero
Anjali Monteiro अंजली मोंटेरो monteiro@tiss.edu [docuwallahs2]
2018-01-08 00:11:20 UTC
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Culture Café

School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

cordially invites you to

THE PRESENT IMAGE

Reflections on the meaning of the visual in contemporary digital
habitats

A talk by Dr. Paolo SH Favero

4.30 pm, Monday, January 15| Classroom 4, Main Campus, TISS

https://www.facebook.com/events/380621482384820/

Abstract

The talk aims to present _The Present Image: Visible Stories in a
Digital Habitat_, a recent book that explores the world of images in the
contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving
across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in
touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and
art-history, and based on the author's practice-based involvement with
images, the book argues against the idea of the digital as a revolution
in the world of images. "Present images" are the result of a dialectic
between the material and the immaterial, the manual and the mechanical,
the visible and the audible, the old and the new. Offering an analysis
containing simultaneously elements of timeliness and timelessness, the
book addressed practices such as VR and 360 degrees, iDocs and action
cameras in a dialogue with classical art, religious iconography, early
photography and contemporary art. In the final chapter the book explores
the significance of images and image-making in the context of dying,
mourning and living.

Bio
Paolo S. H. Favero is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual
Culture at the University of Antwerp. A visual anthropologist, he has
devoted his career to the study of visual culture in India. His core
interest is the role of images (new and old) in human life. An outgoing
member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists (EASA) and the vice-chair of the ECREA working group on
Visual Cultures, Paolo is today the chair of the Master in Film Studies
and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. He is the author of the
book _The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat_ (Palgrave
Macmillan) and the director of the documentary film _Flyoverdelhi_ that
has been screened by Swedish and Italian national broadcasters.

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Post by Anjali Monteiro अंजली मोंटेरो ***@tiss.edu [docuwallahs2]
Culture Café
School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
cordially invites you to
THE PRESENT IMAGE
Reflections on the meaning of the visual in contemporary digital habitats
A talk by Dr. Paolo SH Favero
4.30 pm, Monday, January 15| Classroom 4, Main Campus, TISS
https://www.facebook.com/events/380621482384820/
Abstract
The talk aims to present _The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat_, a recent book that explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and art-history, and based on the author's practice-based involvement with images, the book argues against the idea of the digital as a revolution in the world of images. "Present images" are the result of a dialectic between the material and the immaterial, the manual and the mechanical, the visible and the audible, the old and the new. Offering an analysis containing simultaneously elements of timeliness and timelessness, the book addressed practices such as VR and 360 degrees, iDocs and action cameras in a dialogue with classical art, religious iconography, early photography and contemporary art. In the final chapter the book explores the
significance of images and image-making in the context of dying, mourning and living.
Post by Anjali Monteiro अंजली मोंटेरो ***@tiss.edu [docuwallahs2]
Bio
Paolo S. H. Favero is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. A visual anthropologist, he has devoted his career to the study of visual culture in India. His core interest is the role of images (new and old) in human life. An outgoing member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the vice-chair of the ECREA working group on Visual Cultures, Paolo is today the chair of the Master in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. He is the author of the book _The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat_ (Palgrave Macmillan) and the director of the documentary film _Flyoverdelhi_ that has been screened by Swedish and Italian national broadcasters.
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A Fly in the Curry--Book on Independent Documentary Film in India
Anjali Monteiro, Ph.D., Professor,
K.P. Jayasankar, Ph.D., Professor
School of Media and Cultural Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, India
Phone:+91 22 2552 5661 and +91 22 2552 5660 (Work)
Fax: +91 22 25525050
Skype id: anjalimonteiro
URLs: http://smcs.tiss.edu [1]
http://www.monteiro-jayasankar.com [2]
https://www.facebook.com/monteiro.jayasankar [3]
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