The aim of this one-day international research symposium was to investigate how the conception of time condition, or affect, our awareness of metaphorical meaning in still and moving images. We addressed this question through paper presentation and debate by critically engaging with the material, experiential and aesthetic aspects of visual images to understand the exact relation between the specific temporalities of these images and the temporal nature of the metaphorical.

Keynote by:

Dr DONNA WEST BRETT
Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Sydney, Australia
"Moholy-Nagy: Photography, Metaphor, Time"

Followed with presentations by:

CARMEN HANNIBAL
PhD Candidate in Animation at School of Communication, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
COLE ROBERTSON
PhD Candidate in Photography at School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
"Times of Metaphor: a contextualising introduction"

Dr ALBA TORRENTS and Dr ANDREU BALLÚS
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Time after time. Signs and metaphors of process-time and product-time in Neon Genesis Evangelion"

Dr CHRISTINA SCHMITT
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
"Tykwer’s THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR and the Temporality of Cinematic Metaphorising"

Dr ANDREW WARSTAT
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
"Exhausting metaphor – Andrea Fisher and the infinitely deferred image"

Dr BURKHARD KRÜGER
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany
"American Photobooks as Melancholy Objects, Susan Sontag, Robert Frank and the Metaphorical Space in Photographic Sequences"

OLGA AST
artist and independent scholar, United States of America
"An Artistic Inquiry into the Visual Metaphors of Time"

Dr DONG YANG
Grinnell College, United States of America
"Heliotropic Disnarration: White Mythology, Metaphorical Anexactness, and the Possibility of Essay Film"