VISU – Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture would like to invite you to the symposium Views from Below. Engagements with Vernacular Lens Media Archives on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
Programme
10:00 – 10:30
Karl-Magnus Johansson, Swedish National Archives, Gothenburg
Bureaucratic Gaze as Vernacular Photography? Work Environment Documentation in Post-war Sweden
10:30 – 11:00
Sandra Križić Roban, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Human Labour and the Workers’ Position in Factories through Vernacular Lenses - Some Examples from Croatian Archives
11:00 – 11:30
Mats Jönsson, University of Gothenburg
Peripheral Focus: Excess Information in Swedish Amateur Film Travelogues 1950–1980
11:30 – 12:00
Ella Dezuttere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Queer Archives through the Lens of Art
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:30
Niclas Östlind, University of Gothenburg
Migration Seen Through Lens Media: Visualizations of National Housing Project “Miljonprogrammet”
13:30 – 14:00
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans & Zoë Kennis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Epistemic Reparations Approach to Digital Photographic Archives
14:00 – 14:30
Alina Cristea, LUCA School of Arts
Encounters with the Romanian Archives: In-between Personal Family History and Collective History
14:30 – 15:00
Closing Remarks
