Lectures

Anthropological Photos - The Present and (Digital) Future of Images from the Past

Course of lectures, discussions and screenings on current approaches and various forms of collaboration between Social Sciences and Contemporary Art not only within the so-called Visual Studies but including also other fields and topics such as experiment, engagement, applicability or design.

Katja Müller is a researcher based at the Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her main research interests are photography from India, and digitization processes in ethnographic archives and museum collections.

http://www.katjamueller.org/

placeFAVU VUT
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castKatja Müller
cameraMichal Pavlásek
soundMichal Pavlásek
editingMichal Pavlásek
categoryLectures
published9. 3. 2018
languageČesky / English
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Anthropological Photos - The Present and (Digital) Future of Images from the Past
“I’m surprised how playful people are” my mom said when she saw a neighbor selling agricultural machines, horses, and eventually the entire farm just to be able to spend the whole day at the slot machine. Such “playfulness” is gradually emerging today in almost every area of ​​education, work and leisure. For this tendency, the term gamification, which is predominantly designed from the perspective of service marketing, has come to life. The game is defined, among other things, as “the role of a voluntary control system in which opposing forces are restricted by procedures and rules to produce an imbalance.”
The conversation will examine the methods used by ethnography during field research and the investigation of the survivors, witnesses and victims of violence involving wartime, community, domestic and sexual violence. The speakers will examine these methods in the light of the film by Renzo Martens Enjoy Poverty. Martens proposes that local photographers in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo use human poverty as the main source of national wealth. In the film he offers advice on how to capture images of one’s own poverty.