Image Wars and Image Floods

Organizer

The symposium was organized by the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, and the State College of Design (HfG), Karlsruhe, and took place from 12 - 13 July 2002 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Context

The symposium "Image Wars and Image Floods" addressed the themes of the ZKM exhibition Iconoclash, which presented the conflicts surrounding images both in historical situations and in the contemporary world.
In particular, image questions that play or have played a crucial role in the three areas of religion, art and present-day natural science were presented by the invited experts and jointly discussed. One thing that clearly emerged was that these days the image issue needs to be localized in an interdisciplinary context.

Speakers

12 July 2002

Peter Weibel

Director of the Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Words of welcome Part 1 (in German)
[12.07.2002]
[link 23] Video [RealMedia | 2 Min.]
[link 24] Video [Windows Media | 2 Min.]
[link 25] Database Entry
[link 26] About Peter Weibel

Hans Belting

Professor of aesthetics, art history and media theory at the College of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
Words of welcome Part 2 (in German and English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 27] Video [RealMedia | 3 Min.]
[link 28] Video [Windows Media | 3 Min.]
[link 29] Database Entry
[link 30] About Hans Belting

Brian O'Doherty

Artist, New York, USA
"The last Duchamp Portrait by Patrick Ireland alias B. O'Doherty" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 31] Video [RealMedia | 48 Min.]
[link 32] Video [Windows Media | 48 Min.]
[link 33] Database Entry
[link 34] About Brian O'Doherty

David Freedberg

Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York, USA
"The Kachinas of Oraibi: Ethnography, Photography and Iconoclash" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 35] Video [RealMedia | 52 Min.]
[link 36] Video [Windows Media | 52 Min.]
[link 37] Database Entry
[link 38] About David Freedberg

W.J.T. Mitchell

Professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago, USA
"Offending Images" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 39] Video [RealMedia | 46 Min.]
[link 40] Video [Windows Media | 46 Min.]
[link 41] Database Entry
[link 42] About W.J.T. Mitchell

Peter Galison

Professor of the history of science and physics at Harvard University, USA
"Simulation, Imagery and the Iconoclash" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 43] Video [RealMedia | 39 Min.]
[link 44] Video [Windows Media | 39 Min.]
[link 45] Database Entry
[link 46] About Peter Galison

Jan Assmann

Professor of Egyptology, Institute of Egyptology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
"Zwischen Ikonoklasmus und Idolatrie: vom Sinn des Bilderverbots" (in German)
[12.07.2002]
[link 47] Video [RealMedia | 47 Min.]
[link 48] Video [Windows Media | 47 Min.]
[link 49] Database Entry
[link 50] About Jan Assmann

Othmar Keel

Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
"Die eherne Schlange in Jerusalem und ihre Zerstörung" (in German)
[12.07.2002]
[link 51] Video [RealMedia | 40 Min.]
[link 52] Video [Windows Media | 40 Min.]
[link 53] Database Entry
[link 54] About Othmar Keel

Bruno Latour

Sociologist of science, Centre for the Sociology of Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris, France
"What is Iconoclash?" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 55] Video [RealMedia | 40 Min.]
[link 56] Video [Windows Media | 40 Min.]
[link 57] Database Entry
[link 58] About Bruno Latour

Henk van Os

Professor of art and society at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
"What to do with the return of iconoclasm?" (in English)
[12.07.2002]
[link 59] Video [RealMedia | 33 Min.]
[link 60] Video [Windows Media | 33 Min.]
[link 61] Database Entry
[link 62] About Henk van Os

Dario Gamboni

Professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Neque delenda Imago" (in Englisch)
[12.07.2002]
[link 63] Video [RealMedia | 28 Min.]
[link 64] Video [Windows Media | 28 Min.]
[link 65] Database Entry
[link 66] About Dario Gamboni

13 July 2002

Siegfried Gohr

Professor of aesthetics, art history and media history at the State College of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
"'Bilderstreit' als Bilderstreit" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 67] Video [RealMedia | 29 Min.]
[link 68] Video [Windows Media | 29 Min.]
[link 69] Database Entry
[link 70] About Siegfried Gohr

Friedhelm Mennekes

Priest at St Peter's in Cologne, Cologne/Frankfurt, Germany
"Praxis Bilderstreit. Über den Umgang mit Bildern in Sankt Peter in Köln" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 71] Video [RealMedia | 42 Min.]
[link 72] Video [Windows Media | 42 Min.]
[link 73] Database Entry
[link 74] About Friedhelm Mennekes

Lydia Haustein

Professor of art history and media theory at the College of Design, Berlin-Weissensee, Germany
"'Apocalypse Now' - Das Bild als Tor zum Leben" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 75] Video [RealMedia | 46 Min.]
[link 76] Video [Windows Media | 46 Min.]
[link 77] Database Entry
[link 78] About Lydia Haustein

Martin Schulz

Art historian at the State College of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Die ikonoklastische Geste des Modernismus" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 79] Video [RealMedia | 43 Min.]
[link 80] Video [Windows Media | 43 Min.]
[link 81] Database Entry
[link 82] About Martin Schulz

Anne-Marie Bonnet

Professor of art history at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University, Bonn, Germany
"Ausweitung der Bildzone von Körpern und Bildern im 'bodyturn'" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 83] Video [RealMedia | 40 Min.]
[link 84] Video [Windows Media | 40 Min.]
[link 85] Database Entry
[link 86] About Anne-Marie Bonnet

Peter Weibel

Director of the Centre for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Das algorithmische Bild - von der Repräsentation zur Partizipation" (in English)
[13.07.2002]
[link 87] Video [RealMedia | 62 Min.]
[link 88] Video [Windows Media | 62 Min.]
[link 89] Database Entry
[link 90] About Peter Weibel

Joseph Leo Koerner

Professor in the Department of History of Art of University College, London, Great Britain
"Divine Concealment in Hieronymus Bosch" (in English)
[13.07.2002]
[link 91] Video [RealMedia | 62 Min.]
[link 92] Video [Windows Media | 62 Min.]
[link 93] Database Entry
[link 94] About Joseph Leo Koerner

Gerhard Wolf

Professor of art history at the Universities of Trier, Germany, and of Rome, Italy
"Das paradoxe Bildkonzept der acheiropoieta zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen (Arbeitstitel)" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 95] Video [RealMedia | 58 Min.]
[link 96] Video [Windows Media | 58 Min.]
[link 97] Database Entry
[link 98] About Gerhard Wolf

Bazon Brock

Professor of aesthetics at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany
"Quid tum" (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 99] Video [RealMedia | 61 Min.]
[link 100] Video [Windows Media | 61 Min.]
[link 101] Database Entry
[link 102] About Bazon Brock

Hans Belting

Professor of aesthetics, art history and media theory at the College of Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
Concluding remarks by Hans Belting Part 1 (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 103] Video [RealMedia | 4 Min.]
[link 104] Video [Windows Media | 4 Min.]
[link 105] Database Entry
[link 106] About Hans Belting

Peter Weibel

Director of the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Concluding remarks by Peter Weibel Part 2 (in German)
[13.07.2002]
[link 107] Video [RealMedia | 3 Min.]
[link 108] Video [Windows Media | 3 Min.]
[link 109] Database Entry
[link 110] About Peter Weibel

For more information about the "Iconoclash" exhibition, click [link 111] here.
For more information about the organiser, the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, click [link 112] here.

The lectures at the symposium were recorded by the organizer, the Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe. We apologize for any losses in sound or picture quality.

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