IMAGE, ARCHIVE AND CONFLICT
(IM)MATERIAL ECOLOGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
KEYNOTE & GUEST SPEAKERS
PROF. ANNA MARÍA GUASCH University of Barcelona | DR. SARA CALLAHAN Stockholm University, Sweden |
EMERIC LHUISSET Visual Artist | PEDRO LAGOA Visual Artist |
PROF. ANNA MARÍA GUASCH
Anna Maria Guasch is Professor of Global Art History and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona. Guasch directs and coordinates Global Art Archive, a research group that studies archives and their role as a liaison between collective memory and individual development. Her most recent books are El arte en la era de lo global. 1989-2015 (Madrid, Alianza, 2016) and The Codes of the Global in the Twenty-first Century (AGI/Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2018).
DR. SARA CALLAHAN
Sara Callahan is an art historian specializing in modern and Contemporary art and visual culture. Her book Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art was published in January 2022 by Manchester University Press. She is currently working on a project, financed by the Swedish Research Council, that investigates how photographic motion studies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have been used in different contexts over time, and to what effect.
EMERIC LHUISSET
Emeric Lhuisset is a french visual artist. His work is presented in numerous exhibitions around the world. He won the British Journal of Photography International Ph¬otography Award 2020, ¬the BMW Residency for photography 2018, and Grand Prix Images Vevey - Leica Prize 2017. His work is present in private collections as well as those of the Stedelijk Museum, the Nicéphore Niepce Museum, the Musée de l’Armée – Invalides and the CNAP.
In parallel with his artistic practice, he teaches at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) on the theme of contemporary art & geopolitics. He is represented by Kalfayan Galleries.
PEDRO LAGOA