Gestures of seeing in film, video and drawing - 19

'Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing' engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture.

In our turbulent mediasphere where images - as lenses bearing on their own circumstances - are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry.

The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies.