(Re)Presentations and (Re)Mediations: thinking through the effects and affects of material and visual translation

In this masterclass, we will engage in a process of thinking together and with the concept of visual re-mediation, its methodological potential and cautions. What does it mean to give a historical image or object, or even human remains, a new visual or digital life? Why might we do this, and for whom? And what is at stake in these acts of material or visual translation?

This class seeks to foster connections across and between disciplines as well as research interests. We therefore welcome students working in visual studies, visual arts practice, history, museums and heritage studies, digital humanities and the GLAM sector, and related fields. Participants will be expected to engage with a selection of relevant readings and write a thinkpiece reflecting on ideas from the chosen readings in the context of their own research, to be submitted a week before the class. Participants will have the opportunity to share their thinkpieces along with any relevant visual material in the class, and we will use these ideas to consider some specific examples of critical re-mediation in heritage practice. During the Masterclass, we will visit the Entangled Stories exhibition at the University Museum Groningen, on the Dutch scholar Petrus Camper (1722- 1789).

To sign up, please email: k.e.hollewand rug.nl (spaces are limited)