Cartographies of the Image in the 21st century

This international symposium will bring together philosophers, architects, artists, photographers, filmmakers, media theorists, literary theorists, anthropologists, and scholars in the areas of performance and race studies, to explore the innumerable mediums and forms in which the image appears today: its role and place within the areas of forensics and surveillance, medical and sonar technologies, informatics and weaponry, electronic fields of weaponized data, social media and digital platforms, computer vision and artificial intelligence, cinema and the technical media, algorithms of vision and perception, climate and human rights contexts, classificatory schemas of all kinds, and any number of heterogeneous and often fragmentary forms.

The symposium’s participants represent the United States, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, and Greece, with several of the participants specializing in areas that also include India, Thailand, South Africa, and elsewhere.

Together, we will consider the changing status of images today and in the future as an urgent question rather than as something that we understand.