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Visual motifs in the public sphere. Production and circulation of images of power in Spain, 2011-2017

Visual motifs in the public sphere. Production and circulation of images of power in Spain, 2011-2017
A study on recurrence, production and circulation of specific motifs related with the representation of power in images (both still and moving) released in the press, digital media and television in Spain.

Government financed R & D project by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness

REF: CSO2017-88876-P

A study on recurrence, production and circulation of visual motifs related with power through images —both still and moving— released in written press, digital media and television news in Spain. between 2011 and 2017. This project is based on the premise that images that represent power in the media and other public sphere discourses are based on visual motifs. Not only do these visual motifs exist in artistic works belonging to statuary or painting, they also appear frequently on newsreels or on photojournalism images, among other examples. The main hypothesis is that, underneath the images that we consume in contemporary media everyday, there is a systematized series of visual motifs that represent common situations of public life, from the seize of power in presidential inaugurations, to the depiction of corporate bankrupt, or the occupation of a public square.

 

MOVEP Activities

- Seminar centered on the MOVEP Project, held in the context of the “Mnemosyne” conference, co-organized by the journal Engramma, the IUAV of Venice, the Institute of Culture of UPF and the UCA of Communication of UPF. The seminar, carried out on September 27th, 2018, included the participation from: Sara Agnoletto, Monica Centanni, Victoria Cirlot, Maurizio Ghelardi, Silvia de Laude, Matías Julián Nativo, Clio Nicastro, Alessia Prati, Thays Tonin, Daniel Villamediana, Jordi Balló, Eduard Cairol. Ana Aitana Fernández, Manuel Garín, Mercè Oliva, Ivan Pintor and Alan Salvadó. 

- Round-table “Administration trough Cinema: Myths and Projections of Bureaucracy” (L’Administració a través del cinema: mites i projeccions de la burocràcia), held on December 13th, 2018, at the Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada of the Justice Department, with Ivan Pintor, Jordi Sánchez-Navarro and Carlos Tabernero. 

- Communication “Forms of surveillance: Approaches to the representation of power in the public sphere. A Spanish media case study” at FilmForum’s International Film Studies Conference, held between March 21st and March 23rd, 2019, in Gorizia, Italy. The presentation was carried out by Mercè Oliva, Ivan Pintor and Alan Salvadó, and was a part of the “Moving Pictures, Living Machines. Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Mediacall for papers.