Workshop 8
Applied Visual
Anthropology
Convenor:
Sarah Pink, Loughborough
University
This workshop will explore
uses of and perspectives on the
application of visual
anthropological approaches and methods
outside academic contexts.
There is a long history of visual
anthropology’s
involvement with non-academic projects in
the creative media as well
as social intervention and policy
domains. For example in
ethnographic television documentary
making, indigenous media
projects broaching issues of local
community development,
identity and self-representation, and as
photographic inventories as
part of wider social research projects.
With the recent increase in
use of digital technologies (video, stills
photography and hypermedia)
there is much wider access to and
use of visual imagery and
audio-visual media by anthropologists
working both in and outside
the academy. Simultaneously the use
of visual anthropological
methods of research and representation
is now more prevalent: in
consumer ethnography and design
anthropology trained visual
anthropologists are working with
businesses using visual
ethnography and anthropologically
informed ideas to provide
insights that offer commercial
advantage; anthropologists
working in social development
overseas use visual
research methods, and video production as
part of their working
practices; and ‘at home’ anthropologists
use visual ethnographic
methods in applied work in the public
sector and policy research.
This workshop aims to draw
together the experiences and views
of EASA members who have
used visual methods and media
in anthropological work in
any field that has some impact
outside academic contexts.
I welcome papers on ethnographic
experiences or methodological
or theoretical issues that relate
to this area.
Archiving
“Heritage”, Reconstructing the “Area”: Examples from
Building an Audio-Visual
Database in EU Sponsored Research
Vassiliki Yiakoumaki,
Pánteion University
Collectivity on Screen:
Multi-Vocal Ethnography of the Production
Process of
“Karaoke”, a Community Based Film Project Led by
Artist Els Dietvorst
An van Dienderen,
University of Ghent
an.van.Dienderen@pandora.be, An.VanDienderen@UGent.be
The First Digital
Ethnographic Atlas of Andalucía
Antonio Miguel
Nogués, University Miguel Hernández
Skin and Screen.
Displaying ‘Epidermal Schemas’ in the
Operating Theatres of
Interventional Radiology
Christina Lammer, Vienna
Film Academy
Mediating Memories in
Post-Conflict Sierra Leone. Notes from
a Work in Progress
Paul Basu, University of
Sussex
The Art of Catastrophe:
Ethnography and Multimedia
Terence Wright, University
of Ulster
Remarks on the
Protection of Indigenous Heritage
Helga Lomosits, University
of Vienna
Applied Visual
Anthropology: A Sub-Field in the Making?
Sarah Pink, Loughborough
University