Location: mornings Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art,
afternoons Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, A05 0-056
Registration by 12.06.2010 at: mywar@uni-oldenburg.de

“My War. Participation in times of war” is a cooperation project between the Edith Russ House for Media Art, FACT Liverpool and ISEA 2010Ruhr (16th International Symposium on Electronic Art). The exhibition shows artistic works on representations of current wars in media culture. These question the (moral) effects of the dissolving boundaries between the private and the public, the personal and the political. The focus is on individual artistic explorations of images of war and experiences of war as well as the influence of digital technologies on the dissemination of images of war and the current practice of war.
The workshop focuses on gender constructions that are inscribed in cultural representations and practices. The contributions range from analytical descriptions of the links between cultural representations, for example in art and the mass media or film music, as well as the interactions between commemorative practices and cinematic representations. In addition, artistic works on historical anti-war actions and artistic contributions to the current exhibition, reflections on gender images in expositions of violence and images of the enemy are topics of the workshop.

Program

11.00 a.m.

Guided tour through the exhibition “My War. Participation in Times of War” Location: Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, 26121 Oldenburg
 

13.00-13.30

TeeKaffeeSnacks
Location: Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, A05 0-056
 

13.30-15.30

Welcome and moderation: Helene von Oldenburg (Oldenburg)/ Katharina Hoffmann (Oldenburg)
Silke Wenk (Oldenburg): Intermediale Repräsentationen im Kontext ‘neuer Kriege’. Introduction
Sue Malvern (Reading, UK): Remembering War Protest: Gender and Agency in Re-staging Anti-war Activism
Beate Kutschke (Berlin): Flying Machines and Valkyries – Music and Gender in Factual and Fictional Wars

15.30-16.00

CoffeeTeaPastries
 

16.00-18.00 hrs

Moderation: Katharina Hoffmann
Herbert Mehrtens (Braunschweig)/ Patricia Mühr (Oldenburg): Practices of Memoria between Cinema and Sculpture: The Vietnam Memorials in Washington D.C.
Gabriele Werner (Vienna): New images of the soldier and his female counterpart
 

18.00 -18.30

TeaCoffeeSnacks
 

6.30 – 7.30 p.m.

Moderation: Helene von Oldenburg
Nanna Lüth (Berlin/Oldenburg): Men at War. Women at Work. Notes on a wandering art project
 

19.30 – 20.00 Conclusion