Research Group has Finished the work.
The project "The visual environment of contemporary culture"
The main topic of the research is complex interconnection between visuality and spatiality that became the constitutive elements of contemporary, e.g. urban culture. The project is aimed at clarification of these interconnections using as its theoretical basement research strategies elaborated in three disciplines: contemporary urban theory, visual studies and contemporary aesthetical theory.
The research deals with the following visual environments: television, cinema, urban environment, visual images (from paintings to logos), and virtual space.
The clarification of the connection between visuality and spatiality will help to correlate three elements:
(1) type of the visual content,
(2) ontology (material characteristics) and grammar (the type of connection among material or visual elements) of the spatiality typical for this type of content, and
(3) its communicative, cognitive, emotional and suggestive effects.
The goal of the research is to clarify the connection between visuality and spatiality in the diverse visual environments of modern culture in order to determine their specific social function, and the methods of interaction between them.
The object of the research is the spatial structure of basic visual environments in a modern cultural setting, such as urban space, virtual space, visual images, goods and logos, and how they are connected to one another. In addition to these are the theoretical models and conceptual apparatus, reconstructed on the basis of modern theories of:
- urban space,
- visuality and visual experience, and
- contemporary interdisciplinary aesthetic theory.
Forthcoming joint paper about visual culture
Ilya Inishev and Yuliya Biedash prepared an article on heuristic potential of hermeneutic image conception within discussions on contemporary visual culture.
The research group's participants made presentations on the Colloquium "The Image of a City"
Illya Inishev and Yulia Biedash took participation in the international colloquium and submitted their reports.