Announcing the second annual Stone Summer Theory Institute:

What is an Image?

The School of the Art Institute Chicago, USA, July 13-19, 2008

This year's event is focused on fundamental questions: What makes 
visual objects different from written ones? What are images? What are 
pictures? The art world depends on these ideas, and yet they are rarely 
theorized.

Join us for a week of public lectures, panel discussions, and films, 
with a group of twenty international experts. Tickets are available on 
the website (www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org) or at the door, and 
all tickets are half-priced for students (and free for the SAIC 
community).

 

This year's faculty includes:

W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), one of the most influential 
theorists of words and images, and one of the founders of visual 
studies 

Marie-José Mondzain (L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 
Paris), a brilliant scholar of sacred and profane images in Byzantium 

Jacqueline Lichtenstein (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne), one of the 
world's authorities on the concepts of color and painting

Gottfried Boehm (Universität Basel, Switzerland), a major European 
researcher of images, and student of hermeneutics 

James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), organizer of the 
event, and writer on image theory and art

 

You are welcome to any or all of these public events:


Sunday, July 13, 1 PM - 2 PM, Morton Auditorium, Art Institute of 
Chicago

Introductory lecture: "Who Needs Words?" James Elkins This will be an 
informal talk, to introduce the themes and people in the event. Elkins 
will summarize the principal theories of images, and talk about the 
faculty who will be presenting lectures.


 

Monday, July 14, 9 AM - noon, Ballroom, McLean Center, 112 South 
Michigan Avenue

Opening roundtable discussion with the faculty: a three-hour 
conversation, to introduce the problematic of the event.

The Faculty will discuss their approaches, and consider the principal 
ways of understanding images. Audience questions are encouraged, and 
the event (with questions) will be taped for the book.


 

Monday, July 14, 7:30 PM, Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue

Evening film and lecture: Marie-José Mondzain "What Does Seeing an 
Image Mean?"

The lecture will be preceded by a 75 minute German-language film, "Das 
Stahltier." A translation will be provided. Mondzain (L'Ecole des 
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) is a brilliant scholar of 
sacred and profane images in Byzantium, and the inheritance of ideas of 
iconoclasm, idolatry, etc., in the present. The film she is showing was 
commissioned by the German propaganda ministry and then censored, in 
part for dwelling too much on the English origin of locomotion!


 

Wednesday, July 16, 7:30 PM, Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue

Evening lecture: Jacqueline Lichtenstein "Up Close and From Afar: Image 
and Painting"

Lichtenstein will discuss ways of understanding paintings, from the 
18th century to the present. Lichtenstein (Université de Paris IV 
Sorbonne) is one of the world's authorities on the concepts of color 
and painting. She wrote a wonderful book, "The Eloquence of 
Painting,"on the conceptualization of painting and color in the 17th c.


 

Thursday, July 17, 7:30 PM, Ballroom, 112 South Michigan Avenue

Evening film and lecture: W.J.T. Mitchell "Sounding the Idols of the 
Present: Terrorism and Cloning"

Mitchell's lecture will be preceded by a screening of Errol Morris's 
film "Standard Operating Procedure."


 

Saturday, July 19, 9 AM - 3 PM Price Auditorium, Art Institute of 
Chicago

Closing roundtable:

This is a five-hour event (with an hour for lunch), in which the 
Faculty discusses the themes that have emerged during the week of 
seminars. Audience participation is encouraged; there will be a full 
hour for questions; they will be taped and may be included in the book 
that is produced after the event.

All information about the faculty, the event, and the book series is on 
the website,

http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org 

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