Prof. Hans Belting. An Anthropology of Images or Iconology - Part 1

IMAGE AND CONTEMPORANEITY
International conference with the participation of Prof. Hans Belting and the curator Andrea Buddensieg
07 - 08. 11. 2013
The conference is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia and the Goethe-Institut in Sofia in partnership with the Cultural Center of Sofia University.
© Kalin Serapionov and Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia

[@petergallo514]

"Aby Panofsky.." at 7:30, nice slip! :-)

[@patod4]

oh...am I the only puppeteer listening to him? All the traditions of SE Asian puppetry are exactly about what he is speaking about in 20:00. This conference was done in 2013 so many years have gone by. He says that the brain meets an external representation when perceiving a picture and "controls" what it preceives, which is not so different as he thinks from what the neurobiology of perception tells us today. Neurobiology does not however, do a rigid dualism between internal and external representation as Belting claims. Neurobiology tells us that perception is an active process that activates many parts of the brain like motor control areas, memory, emotions etc and these affect what we "see"as much as seeing affects these parts of the brain. Neurobiologists will never say that "seeing" is a passive process of internailzing an external image. It is not a tranfer from the exogenous to the endogenous. "Gazing/ seeing" is a two directional movement between the perceiving apparatus that plays a role in what we see, and the image that plays a role in affecting the perciving apparatus.Just as he beautifully says: " the image happens in the encounter". Jorge Luis Borges says the same about reading. He says you can't say a book is good just as you can't say a fruit is sweet. The sweetness happens at the moment of eating of the fruit....

[@laraaraujo3731]

oh thanks :D

[@itsbaoyourhomie]

12:45 what is the name of the French anthropologist that he mentions?

[@celiaferreira6278]

Marc Augé, :-)

[@th3n04h]

why do they just keep that blue desktop up the entire time?

[@vapp2010]

No idea, maybe because there is a presentation during the lecture

[@user-yx7qx7hu4g]

maybe because he is gonna show some pictures to confuse us more

[@abrittlebone]

i wonder what’s his take on tiktok lol jk. thanks for the upload!

[@rafaeldesousa1511]

Another Kant's disciple.