International Conference, 10 & 11 June 2011, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
CFP deadline: 15 March 2011
Imagining Imagination
will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines in order to
create novel crossovers between artistic and scientific research and
their respective methodologies. For this to happen, imaginatory
knowledge requires picturing, mapping or description of some sort, and
the modes in which this happens are of great importance in particular in
respect to the discussions surrounding artistic research. The
conference will explore the implications that interdisciplinarity has
for our understanding of the role and function of imagination in
knowledge production in particular, when image and imagination are
more than agents of visibility. The conference aims to open up a
dimension in which seeing itself gains an additional value based on the
certainty that art does not necessarily have to reproduce what is
visible, but instead what one has not yet seen.
Questions that might be addressed include:
- What is the role and power of the imagination? Does it compensate for a loss of reality?
- What is the epistemic status of the imagination?
- What examples can be given of imagination playing a central role in research?
- What is the importance of the fictive, the possible and the projected within research processes?
- How factual is imagination?
- How does one describe the particular state one is in when one imagines?
- What is the relationship between imagination and fantasy?
- How do attention and concentration operate in the imagination? Is a lack of focus beneficial to the imagination?
- How important is imagination for mental health?
- What are the social implicat ions of imagination?
- What role does the imagination play in art-making? Is imagination a creative process?
- What are the creative processes within imagination?
- How much imagination is hidden in scientific knowledge?
- How does imagination actually work?
- Are there different types of imagination?
- How does one describe mediality in the context of imagination?
- How important is imagination for visual knowledge?
- How is imagination (re)presented in research and its methodologies?
