2023 World Picture Conference
Dates:17-18 Nov 2023
Locations:ICI Berlin
Friday 17 November, 2023
9:30-11:30 - Corporeality
Lecture Hall
Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell
Penis Models and Model Penises: Queer Exceptionalism and Achieving a Trans Ideal
Ritzvana Bradley
Technesis of the Flesh
Lawrence Alexander
From Girl Head to Blackface: Cosmetic Models of Race and Gender in Hito Steyerl
Kanika Lawton
Can’t Exist: Trans Negativity After the Tipping Point
11:45-13:15 - Worlding
Lecture Hall
Seb Franklin
Modelling Racial Capitalism in 1969
Jennifer PRanolo
Ian Cheng’s Live Simulations
Lauren Cramer
Skin Deep
11:45-13:15 - Risk
Library
Tomas Percival
Prison Records: Unveiling Models of Risky Subjects
Bhaskar Sarkar
Homo Financius
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Modeling for Complexity:
The Co-Production of
the HIV-1 Macromolecule
14:30-16:00 - Muses
Lecture Hall
Max Cavitch
The Model Mother in James McNeil Whistler’s ‘Arrangements’
Sam Dolbear
Looking Beyond the Subject with a Commodity on its Head: On Doris von
Schönthan
Francis Whorrall-Campbell
Isa Genzken, Adorno, and the Dollhouse of Gender
14:30-16:00 - Platform
Library
Markos Hadjioannou
Activating the Minor Image
Jillian Vasko
Stars–They’re Just Like Us:
Celebrities, ASMR, and OnlyFans
Sudeep Dasgupta
Aesthetic Experience between
Political Fictions and the Realities of the Image
16:30-18:00 - Content
Lecture Hall
Brian Price
Moral Models
Eugenie Brinkema
Lydia Tár, Role Model
19:30 - Keynote
Lecture Hall
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Models as Media of Worlding in Sadie Benning and Fernand Deligny
Introduction: Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Saturday 18 November, 2023
9:30-11:00 - Scale
Lecture Hall
Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Ecological Thought Against the Wall
Nicolaj Lübecker
Alain Resnais, Henri Laborit and the World-Brain Feedback Loop
Abe Geil
Empathy at Scale
9:30-11:00 - Re-Vision
Library
Ruochen Bo
Modeling in Remaking: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon
Mynt Marsellus
Hitchcock as Model:
De Palma as Body Double
Manuele Gragnolati & Francesca Southerden
Sex, Power, and Capital: Keats’s and Pasolini’s Rep(l)otting of Boccaccio
11:30-13:00 - Uprising
Lecture Hall
Luka Arsenjuk
Model Riot
Kyle Stevens
The Ontological Insistence of Camp
Ian Fleishman
Model Citizens: The Pornographic Landscapes of Roosevelt’s Tree Army
11:30-13:00 - Artifact
Library
Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
Gays, Girls, and Ghosts: Remodelling the World with the Archived Photographs of Kewpie of District Six
Maria Teresa Costa
How to Deal with the Destruction and (Re)construction of Models in Art Histories
Alessandra Raengo
Black Art and Self-Same Ecologies of Art Care
15:00-17:00 - Things
Lecture Hall
Georgina Evans
Modelling the Volcano on Film
Amy Rust
Animating Props
John David Rhodes
Prop Value
15:00-17:00 - Mediation
Library
Roberto Filippello
Wearing the Glitch: A Queer Model of Fugitivity in the Palestinian Resistance
Stephen Woo
Modeling the Counter/Forensic Gaze
Matthew Thompson
Vegetal Legibility: Mediated Plants in the 1970s
Elizabeth Wijaya
Another Shape of Time: Trees, Rocks, Caves and other Models of Relational Lives
17:30-19:00 - Forms
Lecture Hall
Jeff Scheible
Ping Pong, Modelwork, and Contemporary Television
Jonathan Harris
‘Dear Jim, Your Last Film Takes Us Too Far into the Bowel Regions’: The Body According to Jim Davis
Jacob Engelberg
The Affordances of the Bisexual Triangle
19:30 - Live Performance
Lecture Hall
Final Party (Barry Johnston)
Introduction: John David Rhodes