Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design
While vision is the master sense of the modern era, Martin Jay argues that the scopic regime of modernity may best be understood as a contested terrain, rather than a harmoniously integrated complex of visual theories and practices. The implications for architectural history and theory, in the light of the changing landscapes of contemporary social, cultural and political relations, are twofold. Firstly, if each scopic regime, with its own rhetorical and representational structures, is an attempt to order the multiple visualities in/of the world into a natural hierarchy, we ask with Hal Foster, how can architectural research “historicise modern vision, to specify its dominant practices and its critical resistances”? How do we seek other models that contend Cartesian perspectivalism as the dominant tradition, models which would include the baroque, phenomenal and eschatological? And secondly, how does architectural seeing/reading/writing deal with the relations between the visible and the real (where in modernity the visible is more real than the real) to acknowledge the multiple spectrality of the in-visible in life that is neither occularcentric nor ontological?
The conference will be held in the recently completed state-of-the-art Hawke Building, University of South Australia’s new flagship building on North Terrace, designed by John Wardle in association with Hassell Adelaide. Wardle speaks of the Hawke Building as an “alchemist’s crucible” where on the inside is the “experiment – a free and fearless argument.”
Paulette Singley, Woodbury University Los Angeles, USA
Keith Eggener, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Mark Crinson, University of Manchester, UK
William Taylor, University of Western Australia
Linda Marie Walker, University of South Australia
John Macarthur, University of Queensland
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, University of Adelaide
Judith Brine, Adelaide City Council
Antony Moulis, University of Queensland
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SAHANZ 2007 Conference Program
CAMEA 2007 Satellite Event
Architecture, Nature, Ethics Roundtable
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