Repräsentationen von Geschlecht im Zeitalter moderner Kriege

Location: in the morning Edith Russ House for Media Art,
in the afternoon Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, A05 0-056
Registration until 12.06.2010 at: mywar@uni-oldenburg.de

"My War. Participation in Times of War" is a cooperation project of the Edith Russ House for Media Art with 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 ask about the (moral) effects of the dissolving boundaries between the private and the public, the personal and the political. Individual artistic confrontations with war images and war experiences are in the focus as well as the influence of digital technologies on the dissemination of war images and the current practice of war.
The workshop focuses on gender constructions inscribed in cultural representations and practices. Contributions range from analytical descriptions of the linkages of cultural representations in art and mass media or film music, for example, to the interactions between commemorative practices and cinematic representations. Furthermore, artistic works on historical anti-war actions and artistic contributions to the current exhibition, reflections on gender images in expositions of violence and enemy images are topics of the workshop.

Program
11.00 a.m.

Guided tour of the exhibition "My War. Participation in Times of War" Location: Edith Russ House for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany

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): Intermedial representations in the context of 'new wars'. 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

CoffeeTeaBiscuits

16.00-18.00

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

18.30 - 19.30

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