Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture and the Department of History of Art will be hosting a one day workshop - Cultures of the copy: Creative and subversive reinventions of reproductive technology.
Technology often goes unseen, acting as a background mechanism which facilitates modern life, yet responsible for altering our behaviour, social condition, visual environment and ways of thinking. Technology also normally carries with it a set of presuppositions, shaped by the design, function, and purpose of its machines and processes. But, as André Breton insisted, objects can be reassembled, their function and perception diverted to alternative ends. He saw the possibility for ‘a total revolution of the object’, diverting it to new ends. This workshop will explore the appropriation of technology, its machines and devices for social, creative and subversive ends. In particular we hope to highlight subcultural resistance, and the giving voice to individuals and communities through self-produced forms not constrained by the dictates of the so-called culture industries, as well as the forms by which artists have challenged and enhanced our view of the uses of technology in artistic practice.
Speakers will include:
University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
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