Conference “Women, Photography, Conflict”

The fourth edition of the international conference Fast Forward: Women in Photography – WOMEN, PHOTOGRAPHY, CONFLICT will take place on 16 and 17 November 2023, at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, Zagreb. The conference will explore the ways that women photographers have worked in countries affected by conflict and will generate new knowledge within this under researched area. As the violation of women’s rights is one of the prominent aspects

Leonida Kovač organized the Yaev Toren exhibition at the Kranjčar Gallery

The exhibition Deadlines by Yael Toren opened in the Kranjčar Gallery, organized by PhD. Leonida Kovač. From the comprehensive introduction, prepared for the exhibition catalog, we highlight: “The knowledge of a moment in Yael Toren’s artistic research is evidently the knowledge of the present moment, marked by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the terrifying extent of war destruction, and the resulting so-called migrant crisis, in which exiles and refugees are exposed

Call for Book Chapter: Oikography: Homemaking through Photography

The invitation to submit a book chapter comes from Dr Ali Shobeiri, who participated in the conference Formats of (Non)Seeing in Split: Oikography: Homemaking through Photography Can photography become a means of homemaking? If so, how does this representational medium deal with home as something that is not necessarily limited to the photographic frame. While for the photographer home is the space at which the camera aims, for the photographed

A new volume of the journal Studia ethnologica Croatica has been published with contributions from collaborators on the project

In December 2022, the new, 34th issue of the journal Studia ethnologica Croatica was published and is available on the Hrčak portal at the following link >>> Along with an editorial on the topic of the magazine edited by Ph.D. Ana Šeparović and Ph.D. Sandra Križić Roban, titled “Photography and Its Many Faces [Introduction to Thematic Section]”, which is the result of activities on the Ekspozicija project, contributions were also

New issue of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies published by the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade

The 28th volume of the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies published by the Faculty of Media and Communication of the University of Singidudunum in Belgrade has been published. Theme of the issue – Rare, bound, cheap, inserted – the evolution of photography books. The editor of this edition is Ph.D. Sandra Križić Roban.   From the editorial: The history of photobooks is closely linked to the history of

Formats of (Non)Seeing – book of abstracts

The conference  Formats of (Non)Seeing, organised by Institute of Art History, will take place in Split, October 27 – 29, in the conference hall at the Hotel Cornaro, Sinjska 6.     Registration and welcome:  Thursday, 27. 10. 2022, 9:00.  If you want to follow the conference online, please send your request to Ana Ćurić  acuric@ipu.hr   Please find a detailed programme with abstracts here: FoNS web   We are

Programme of the conference Formats of (Non)Seeing

Programme of the conference Formats of (Non)Seeing, organised by Institute of Art History, which will take place  in Split, October 27 – 29, in the conference hall at the Cornaro hotel:   Thursday, 27. 10. 2022   9:00 Welcome Session 1, 9:30 – 10:50 Curatorial Narratives and Life as Photographic Phenomenon chair: Sandra Križić Roban Alice Haddad Landscape Inventory Vs. Collection: The Photography Commission of the Flemish Government Architect on

Ph.D. Costanza Caraffa – guest lecturer

Costanza Caraffa, Ph.D., will be a special guest of the second scientific colloquium, which will take place at the Institute of Art History on June 2, 2022 as part of the projects activities. On that occasion, she will hold consultations with team members regarding their research. In addition, she will visit the phototheque of the Institute and give a lecture under the title “Curating the photographic archive. Artistic projects at the

CALL FOR PAPERS – Formats of (Non)Seeing

Split, 27th – 29th October 2022   Formats of (Non)Seeing   [Photographic] “Images are significant surfaces. Images signify – mainly – something “out there” in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions (as reductions of the four dimensions of space and time to the two surface dimensions).” V. Flusser, 2007 After its appearance in 1839, photography quickly became a participant, witness and chronicler of

Photography – practice and medium of documentation and cultural-analytical thinking

RESEARCH PROJECT 6. PAZI ŠTO JEDEŠ LABORATORIJ, April 4 – 8, 2022, University of Zadar STUDENT RESTAURANTS: EXPERIENCES, MEMORIES, VIEWS, AND OPPORTUNITIES Pazi šo jedeš Laboratorij (PŠJ LAB) brings together students of ethnology and cultural anthropology from the University of Zagreb and the University of Zadar, conducts field research on traditional and modern nutrition, and encourages approaches, techniques, and methods of visual ethnography. The project is taking place for the