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More Than Meets the Eye-Cross-cultural Interpretations of Digitally Manipulated Photography

The special topic calls for papers on More Than Meets the Eye-Cross-cultural Interpretations of Digitally Manipulated Photography and such papers will appear in the journal Cross-Cultural Communication as a special column. 1
Affiliated research area: Risk Poetic Research, Digital Photography, Visual Information, Epistemology, Cross-Cultural Interpretation, Hybridity, Taoism, Hun Y uan Qi system

Description
Interpreting visual information conveyed by artistic traditions based on culturally different epistemological and conceptual frameworks offers significant challenges. There is a good deal of anecdotal evidence that deeply mono cultural Australian students learning about certain 'Asian' artistic traditions for the first time are particularly susceptible to making serious interpretive errors when reading 'other-culture' visual imagery, despite the fact that such visual information may look - on the surface at least - very similar to imagery in artworks with which they are culturally familiar. This is a problem that goes well beyond the purely pedagogical, affecting all persons working towards an understanding of the visual information conveyed by cultural products outside of their own experience. Furthermore, this applies to digital art as much as to paintin g and other media. Therefore it is important that when working in such cross-cultural contexts the understanding that there is often a good deal more to understanding visual artwork than the purely visual - or that which meets the eye -- be nurtured and developed. The following analys is of photographic artworks exhibited by South Korean-born, Newcastle-based digital artist Tae Yang ('Sunny') Hong in his recent exhibition WOMEN, TECHNOLOGY , UTOPIA, presents such an interpretive challenge. Sunny Hong uses a blurring technique based on the Chinese philosophical tradit ion of Taoism, arising directly from the Hun Y uan Qi system. To understand and engage with Hong's oeuvre it is thus essential that one develop a visual and cultural knowledge-based understanding of the belief system underlying Hong's approach. The aim of this paper is therefore to contribute to a greater understanding of the fundamental principle that cultural difference is deeply encrypted in visual information, and that such difference goes beyond the visual, insofar as it resides at the level of the epis teme. It should be added that today, as a result of increasing globalization, there is very little visual art that does not draw upon a range of cultural influences, or evince a level of cultural hybridity, and Hong's oeuvre is no exception. Rosenberg's poetic model of research, developed specifically in relation to visual art and design research, will be brought into play here in or der to illuminate Sunny Hong's body of visual artwork.

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Related Conferences:
2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems

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More Than Meets the Eye: Cross-cultural Interpretations of Digitally Manipulated Photography ISBN: 978-1-4673-2260-7

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Founded in May, 2005, the Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture is pleased to recommend the journal for the social sciences: Cross-Cultural Communication (ISSN 1712-8358 [Print]; ISSN 1923-6700 [Online]). The journal is designed to provide a forum for those who focus on the field of the cross culture research, or the community with different culture backgrounds, and provide critical perspectives of interculture or the intercultural as a foundation of which to build solutions to worldwide political, economic, workplace, social, gender, ethnic, environmental and other forms of problems. Cross-Cultural Communication is filed by Library and Archives Canada, and collected in the database AMICUS of Canada. It is also indexed by more than 20 famous databases : ABI/INFORM Complete, ABI/INFORM Global, Academic One File, Academic Search Complete, AMICUS, Canadian Periodicals, CBCA Business, CBCA Complete, Communication & Mass Media Complete, DOAJ etc. More detailed information about the journal can be discovered in http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/ccc. We sincerely welcome you to submit articles to the special column of our journal. If you rightly have a manuscript in this field, please dont hesitate to write us an email with the subject of Submission for CCC Special Topic More Than Meets the Eye: Cross-cultural Interpretations of Digitally Manipulated Photography (http://cscanada.net/users/index.php/index/login). We look forward to your submission at ccc@cscanada.org; ccc@cscanada.net! More detailed information about the special topic, pertinent conferences, related journals (special issue) and relevant articles can be discovered from our websites: http://cscanada.net/index.php/ccc/announcement/view/63.

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