Nuclear Imaginaries
 
 
 
  After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries  
Mixed Media Exhibition - Curated by Siumee Keelan
 

Symposium: Visual Culture and Nuclearisation
24th September 2005

This one day symposium was presented by the Centre of Contemporary Visual and Material Culture, Faculty of Design, Kingston University, in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute, School of African and Oriental Studies and Copad Arts at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

The event provided an opportunity for leading experts from the UK, USA and Columbia to consider aesthetic responses to culture of annihilation and contamination in the current phase of nuclear consciousness.

Please contact info@copadarts.com for further information or see report from Kingston University.

 
     
Symposium - Papers submitted
 
Gregory Pflugfelder Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, USA The Godzilla Cycle and the Atomic Imaginary
 
Professor Andrés Gaitán Tobar Visual Arts Department, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia From the Mushroom to the Necklace: Body and Ruin
 
Dr Wendy Kozol Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA From Mushroom Clouds to “Star Wars”: The Battle in Space
 
Ombretta Agro Andruff Independent Curator, New York Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible
 
Andrew Kennedy Lecturer in Cultural Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Missiles from the Orient: Western Representations of the Nuclear Far East
 
John Timberlake Artist and Co-editor, Everything Magazine, London

Another Country: Reflections on Photography, Nuclear Romanticism and the Post-9/11 Era

Visual reference:
Another Country IX
The View from East 7th Street
 
Ron Delves Senior Lecturer in Film History, Kingston University The Fear and Loathing of Gothic Science: Responses to the Nuclear Threat in the British 1960s Horror Film
 
Chris Horrocks Senior Lecturer, Kingston University Bomb Heroes: Mutation as Metaphor in Middle Eastern Action Comics
 
Siumee Keelan Independent Curator and Part Time Lecturer, Kingston University After Hiroshima: The Japanese Nuclear Imaginary