Programme (papers are being posted on this website as they arrive):

Das Bild: Image, Picture, Painting

Akademie der Künste Berlin

23. - 26. November 2000

The Berlin Akademie der Künste, in co-operation with the Nottingham Trent University and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, held an International Symposium from the 23rd to the 26th of November 2000. As the English subtitle indicates the German term "Bild" embraces different and often conflicting meanings. The Symposium was intended to explore and examine these different aspects in an inter-disciplinary manner. To facilitate this the subject was been divided into four main themes which were dealt with successively in papers and discussions on the 24th and the 25th:

1. The philosophical implications: from the Antique concepts of icon, eidolon, eidos, phantasma and imago to the modern distinctions of image, schema, sign and notion. It is hoped to include non-European interpretations as well.

2. The scientific point of view: contributions will be sought from perceptual psychology, neuro-biology, and psychoanalysis. The generation and functioning of those immaterial images which traditionally have been seen as belonging to human "imagination".

3. The pictorial context: the difference and the relationship of paintings to those art-less images of the brain and the pictures of the media. "The Picture of Art is not a Picture. Painting in Art is not Painting" (Ad Reinhardt).

4. The imagery of the media: from the reproduction techniques to the digital constitution of "pictures". The legitimate and the problematic aspects of the distinction between the "real" and the "virtual".

Programme (papers are being posted on this website as they arrive):

Do, 23.11

Prof. Dr. Renate Schlesier, Universität Paderborn:

Idole und Gewebe. Kultur als Bild und Text

Fr, 24.11

PD. Dr. Oliver Scholz, Freie Universität Berlin:

Image - Reflections on a contested concept

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Teja Bach, Universität Wien:

Inlay. On the origins of perspectival images.

Prof. Dr. Timon Screech, Japanese Research Centre, SOAS, London:

Mechanical Viewing in Edo Japan

Bridget Riley, London:

Plastic Images

Prof. Dr. Robert Kudielka, HdK Berlin:

Platonic Dilettantism

Prof. Dr. Hans Belting, ZKM Karlsruhe:

The theatre of illusion

Sa, 25.11

Prof. Dr. Detlef B. Linke, Neurochirug, Universitäsklinik Bonn:

How not to see?

Prof. Dr. James Elkins, Arts Institute, Chicago:

The Unrepresentable. The concept of the Sublime in Painting,

Physics, Astronomy

Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt Universität Berlin:

Zu Leibniz’ Konzept des anschaulichen Denkens

Dr. Edda Hevers, Frankfurt am Main:

Picturing the Unimaginable:

Freud and the Visual Unconscious

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Zurbrugg, De Montfort University, Leicester:

Image warfare, retro tableaux, and the mutimediated self

Reviews:

Der Tagesspiegel, 28th November 2000

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 December 2000

Lier en Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, 16, "Exploding Aesthetics", isbn 90-420-1315-x, pp.170-173.

Enquiries: richard.woodfield@ntu.ac.uk


	Das Bild: Image, Picture, Painting Akademie der Künste Berlin 23. - 26. November 2000 The Berlin Akademie der Künste, in co-operation with the Nottingham Trent University and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, held an International Symposium from the 23rd to the 26th of November 2000. As the English subtitle indicates the German term "Bild" embraces different and often conflicting meanings. The Symposium was intended to explore and examine these different aspects in an inter-disciplinary manner. To facilitate this the subject was been divided into four main themes which were dealt with successively in papers and discussions on the 24th and the 25th: 1. The philosophical implications: from the Antique concepts of icon, eidolon, eidos, phantasma and imago to the modern distinctions of image, schema, sign and notion. It is hoped to include non-European interpretations as well. 2. The scientific point of view: contributions will be sought from perceptual psychology, neuro-biology, and psychoanalysis. The generation and functioning of those immaterial images which traditionally have been seen as belonging to human "imagination". 3. The pictorial context: the difference and the relationship of paintings to those art-less images of the brain and the pictures of the media. "The Picture of Art is not a Picture. Painting in Art is not Painting" (Ad Reinhardt). 4. The imagery of the media: from the reproduction techniques to the digital constitution of "pictures". The legitimate and the problematic aspects of the distinction between the "real" and the "virtual". Programme (papers are being posted on this website as they arrive): Do, 23.11 Prof. Dr. Renate Schlesier, Universität Paderborn: Idole und Gewebe. Kultur als Bild und Text Fr, 24.11 PD. Dr. Oliver Scholz, Freie Universität Berlin: Image - Reflections on a contested concept Prof. Dr. Friedrich Teja Bach, Universität Wien: Inlay. On the origins of perspectival images. Prof. Dr. Timon Screech, Japanese Research Centre, SOAS, London: Mechanical Viewing in Edo Japan Bridget Riley, London: Plastic Images Prof. Dr. Robert Kudielka, HdK Berlin: Platonic Dilettantism Prof. Dr. Hans Belting, ZKM Karlsruhe: The theatre of illusion Sa, 25.11 Prof. Dr. Detlef B. Linke, Neurochirug, Universitäsklinik Bonn: How not to see? Prof. Dr. James Elkins, Arts Institute, Chicago: The Unrepresentable. The concept of the Sublime in Painting, Physics, Astronomy Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt Universität Berlin: Zu Leibniz’ Konzept des anschaulichen Denkens Dr. Edda Hevers, Frankfurt am Main: Picturing the Unimaginable: Freud and the Visual Unconscious Prof. Dr. Nicholas Zurbrugg, De Montfort University, Leicester: Image warfare, retro tableaux, and the mutimediated self Reviews: Der Tagesspiegel, 28th November 2000 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 December 2000 Lier en Boog, Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, 16, "Exploding Aesthetics", isbn 90-420-1315-x, pp.170-173. Enquiries: richard.woodfield@ntu.ac.uk