Dr Julie Doyle on visual representation and climate change.
15 Aug 2013
Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories Research Seminar
Wednesday 11 November 2009
5.30pm for drinks, paper begins at 6pm
The Board Room, Centre for Research and Development
Grand Parade
Dr Julie Doyle, Principal Lecturer, Media Studies
Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton.
'Mediating Climate Change - Questioning Nature, Vision and Time'
Abstract:
The temporal complexity of climate change poses problems for visual communication. The effect of greenhouse gases emitted in the present will only be visible in the future, while the impacts we 'see' in the present are the result of emissions in the past. Photographic and video images of climate impacts thus lock us into the past of climate change, creating problems for mobilising climate action in the present. This paper explores the limitations of the visual in the context of climate change communication.
All welcome. For further details, please contact Dr Lucy Noakes on l.noakes@bton.ac.uk, telephone 01273 643311
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