CFP Lex-ICON (France) Treating the Image as Text and the Text as Image

- Tuesday at 6:00pm until Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 11:30pm
Calls for Papers for International Conference at Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France, Mulhouse, France

CFP online at : http://lex-icon21.blogspot.com/
Multidisciplinary conference on text and image creation, use and reception in ultra-contemporary literature and visual art (works created in the 21st century).
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Short version of CFP Anglais :
This conference will unite researchers from varied disciplines in order to begin formulating a new criticism for the 21st century’s authors and visual artists who are given to making texts to see as if they were geometric forms, or forms to read, colors and visual sequences whose nature it had once been to reach spectators and their perceptions with an inherent immediacy.

In particular, Lex-ICON will focus on the reception of hybrid works, asking whether language and words are necessary to say or communicate things and ideas or even to think. Can one simply feel thought through the gaze without ever really having the words, the grammar and thus language itself to describe it? Is a process of translation from the visual to linguistic necessary for thought to take place? The debates which have surrounded the treatment, classification, teaching, economy and reception of such works and the theories on lexiconographic work have long lived in separate ponds, our idea is to unify them to seek a common, cross-disciplinary discourse.

Discussions and panels will be joined by a series of artistic and literary presentations and performances during and around the conference in the region of Alsace and the city of Mulhouse.

Paper proposals (250-300 words) in French or English should be emailed before the 25th of February 2012. They should be sent to both Jennifer K Dick (jennifer-kay.dick@uha.fr or fragment3@yahoo.com) and to Océane Delleaux (oceane.delleaux@wanadoo.fr).

For the complete CFP and to see other information concerning this conference :http://lex-icon21.blogspot.com/