Visual Ethics Network inaugural discussion: “Why Visual Ethics?”

By employing the World Café Method for the inaugural session of VEN we will explore how we can define “visual ethics”, the lenses through which it has been approached in different disciplines, the key themes that could be explored in future sessions and explore whether the key questions differ significantly when posed from different disciplinary stances. In preparation for this event scanned versions of texts will be made available to those who RSVP.

Walead Beshty, “Introduction // Toward and Aesthetics of Ethics”, in Ethics, Documents of Contemporary Art series (London: Whitechapel Gallery and Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2015), 12-23.

Jennifer Evans, “Introduction: Photography as an Ethics of Seeing”, in The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History, edited by Jeniffer Evans, Paul Betts, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018), 1-22.

Paul Martin Lester, Visual Ethics: A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Filmmakers (New York: Routledge, 2018), 1-17 (Chapter 1: “Ethical Issues and Analytical Procedures”).

“Visual Ethics”, Wikipedia