ERASMUS EXCHANGE LECTURES IN PGOTOGRAPHY AND AUDIOVISUAL ARTS

ERASMUS EXCHANGE LECTURES IN PGOTOGRAPHY AND AUDIOVISUAL ARTS

We inform and welcome you to some very interesting presentations that are happening in the Photography and Audiovisual arts department during the months of May and June. We will be happy to meet you there and get into very interesting discussions on issues around gender and feminist art and resistance, visual narrative, Serbian new generation artists and the student Bienalle of Novisad, film video screenwriting, film noir all in a mixed multicultural all inclusive environment. Thank you to all Erasmus staff, participating Professors and UNIWA that supports and encourages those exchanges. They are valuable we will keep going.  

 

Eva Katsaiti 

Erasmus Academic Coordinator 

 

May 9 (Tuesday), 2023 9.30-11.30 room K8.217 Ivana Tomanovic Professor at the Photography Department at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia

The presentation of new-generation artists in Serbia who are proficient in photography or just use it as a means of artistic expression as they combine several media in their artistic work. In relation to this topic, she will develop a discussion with students about the position of the medium of photography in current artistic practice, its use, presentation, and validation in the context of their cultural environment. In relation to that discussion she’ll talk about the specifics of pictorial and technical aspects of today’s photography works, mainly in the field of narrative photography (documentary, long-term projects).  

 

May 9 (Tuesday), 2023 18.30-19.30 room K8.217 

 

Prof Carlos Amaral is a film director and vfx artist from ESAD in Porto , Portugal
www.esad.pt 

A talk on video, vfx, directing and screenwriting and directing for vfx . 

May 11 (Thursday), 2023 9.00-9.30 room K8.217 Professors Paula Regueira Guntín and Laura Miragaya López from IES Audiovisual de Vigo, presentation of their school. 

 

May 11 (Thursday), 2023 9.30-11.30 room K8.217. Ivana Tomanovic Professor at the Photography Department at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia

Special focus would be given to the presentation of the World Biennial Student Photography Contest which has been organized by the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad since 2004. The Biennial serves as a major exhibition in the region, which represents the current student photography practice all over the world. It not only represents but raises questions about the subjects, approaches, presentations, technical aspects of the student works and appropriateness of such exhibitions. This would be an open discussion and an open call for students to participate in the upcoming Biennial in December 2023. 

 

June 08 (Thursday), 2023 17.30-19.00 room K8. 

Dr Luís Miguel Oliveira Barros Cardoso, Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic of Portalegre, Portugal

Tales from the Dark: Understanding Film Noir: a brief portrait of Film Noir’s origins, characteristics and legacy, from the Femme Fatale to the Hardboiled Detective in a society with different shades of grey about values and principles like justice, good and evil.” 

 

June 13 (Tuesday), 2023 9.30-11.30 room K8.217  Prof. Dr. Bengisu Bayrak Shahmiri, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, in Beykoz University in Istanbul , Turkey
https://www.beykoz.edu.tr/icerik/2278-deans-message and a contemporary artist, living and working in Istanbul. 

“Contemporary Art of Turkey: Feminist art in Resistance from 1990s to Today” aims to give an overview of contemporary art in Turkey with a focus on artists working on the concepts of gender inequality and patriarchal hierarchy. It will look at the last 30 years and analyse art as a form of political stance. 

 

June 14 (Wednesday), 2023 9.30-11.30 room K8.217 Prof. Dr. Bengisu Bayrak Shahmiri, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, in Beykoz University in Istanbul,Turkey. 

 

The visual narrative workshop combines theory and contemporary visual storytelling practices and aims to examine how representation, gender and identity interact, and therefore reveals a political approach. It focuses on the creative ways of juxtaposing text (linguistic message) and image (chain of signifiers). Participants of the workshop are introduced to the theory of visual storytelling and examples from contemporary art, and then experience various creative methods to tell a visual story. Going through the process of idea-concept-visualisation, they discover ways to convey their own stories to others by creating an original visual language with various tools such as text, photography, drawing, found objects, and so forth.