Images as thought: Dialogue between art, science, history and philosophy

 

Academic research has devoted relatively little attention to the means of image production, their epistemological significance, or their relationship to culture in general. Although the visual turn of recent years has brought new methodological perspectives, the understanding of images remains limited and is often considered merely as a communicative resource for illustrating results, rather than as part of the development of a “materialized epistemology” that integrates sensory knowledge with scientific knowledge and allows for the generation of a different historiography.

The historian of science Norton Wise argues that the traditional dichotomies that tend to separate art from science, museums from laboratories, and geometric from algebraic methods have impoverished our understanding of visualization processes.

With an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar explores other ways of understanding images and their use in research.

Reference: M. Norton Wise, "Making visible", Isis 97 (1):75-82 (2006)

Participants: Andrea Soto Calderón (professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, UAB), Blanca Pujals (Architect, writer, and filmmaker), and Agustí Nieto-Galan (professor of History of Science, UAB).

 

Program (event in Catalan and Spanish)

12:00 Presentation

12:15-12:45 Screening and contextualization of the film Quantum sensing infrastructures (Blanca Pujals)

12:45-13:15 Commentary (A. Soto Calderón)

13:15-13:45 Break (lunch on site)

13:45-14:15 Commentary (A. Nieto-Galan)

14:15-15:00 General discussion

This event is part of the “Workshops on Historiographic Tools” (WHITS) series. Aimed primarily at doctoral students, it is also open to the entire academic community and to people interested in the dialogue between art, science and the humanities.