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The
Visual-Narrative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions
(2000)
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KEYNOTE CONTRIBUTORS
Mieke Bal is a widely published cultural
critic and theorist. She is Professor of Theory of Literature
at the University of Amsterdam and the Andrew D. White professor-at-large
at Cornet[ University in New York. She is founding director
of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and
Interpretation (ASCA). Her most recent book Quoting Caravaggio:
Contemporary Art, Preposterous History was published in September
1999 by the University of Chicago Press. Another forthcoming
publication is Looking in: The Art of Viewing a compilation
of essays by Bal with a commentary by Norman Bryson. Her major
publications to date include Naratology: Introduction to the
Theory of Narrative, University of Toronto Press, 1985; Doubled
Exposures: the Subject of Cultural Analysis Routledge, 1996
and Reading Rembrandt Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, Cambridge
University Press, 1994.
Bob Cotton is a designer, writer arid new media strategist
working with AMX Studios, London, one of the leading new-media
design studios. He has produced several books or graphic and
new-media design, the most recent of which are: The Cyberspace
Lexicon Phaidon, 1994 and Understanding Hypermedia 2000, Phaidon,
1997. His pamphlet on the future of digital media: You Ain't
Seen Nothing Yet was published by the ICA in February 1999.
Cotton's keynote paper is entitled 'The Smart Global Networked
Multi-User, Multi-Storey Machine'. In it he explores the possibilities
and problems afforded to storytellers by webcasting. web TV,
interactive digital television, artificial life, virtual reality
and simulation.
Nina Pope and Karen J. Guthrie are pioneers
in the domain of Internet Art. Their combination of an autobiographical
and conceptualist aesthetic with the Internet's potential
for audience interactivity makes their work especially interesting,
from the standpoint of visualnarrative. Pope and Guthrie were
awarded a fellowship in visual- narrative practice by the
Fine Art Research Centre, Southampton Institute in 1999. The
first exhibition of the work produced from their fellowship,
An Artists' Impression (Island), look place at the ICA Gallery
in London. It was then exhibited at the Millais Gallery, Southampton
Institute. In their essay the artists explain the ideas and
experiences allied to their conception of this work.
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Dr. Graham Coulter-Smith
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An anthology of twenty-two essays on the dynamic interplay
of visual and verbal narrative.
The traditional concept of narrative as predominantly verbal
seems inappropriate when discussing culture in the age of mechanical
and electronic reproduction. It is proposed, therefore, that
'visual' arid 'narrative' constitute a dynamic matrix of interdisciplinary
collisions and collusions. Visual representation becomes understood
as having a 'grammar', 'vocabulary' and 'rhetoric' of its own
that can contribute to the advancement of language in the same
way that language has contributed to the visual.
The twenty-two essays collected in this volume explore a broad
spectrum of cultural production from fine art to contemporary
design, video, cinema, theatre and the hypertextuality of the
World Wide Web. Using a variety of theoretical frameworks the
authors investigate the subtle zones of interaction between
visual and verbal narrativity and the possibilities offered
by increasingly powerful visual technologies.
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