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- Axelsson, Bodil, et al.
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Between Places : The Artist's Work and the Work of Art
- 2012
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Ingår i: Senmoderna reflexioner. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199450 ; , s. 113-123
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines the place of art in two concrete ways, first, as the location of the site-specific atrwork involving an artist's drawn-out commute during its production, and second, as a re-location the artwork undergoes as it is displayed in other venues. The focus is on Sound Machine, by Paris-based artist Esther Shalev-Gerz, initially created for Norrköping's Industrial Landscape, before it began "commuting" to other venues, including Paris and Stockholm.
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- Axelsson, Bodil, et al.
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Konst genom staden : (Art Through City Space)
- 2010
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this project was to develop arts-based research involving, in various ways, urban space and its inhabitants. The project title — ‘art through city space’ — suggests movement and flow, as well as a perspective. Thus, the space of the city provided a conceptual framework for developing works that engaged with far larger issues than those conventionally associated with art in public space. The project participants were Johan Berglund, Jonas Dahlberg, Göran Dahlberg and Esther Shalev-Gerz, as well as researchers Bodil Axelsson and Karin Becker. As initially formulated, ‘Art through City Space’ was to address issues concerning the place of art in contemporary urban space. The idea was that the work developed in the project would, in one way or another, be ‘public art’ even as it was expected to challenge and contest traditional views of the place of art in public space. Through the process and the artworks that were realised over the three-year period, the artistic research process led the project group into a range of other questions and practices central to contemporary urban life.
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- Axelsson, Bodil, et al.
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Mobilising participation in the work of art : Sound Machine by Esther Shalev-Gerz
- 2011
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Ingår i: <em>The Art of Engagement</em>. - Sydney : UWA Publishing. - 9781742582870 ; , s. 181-196
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The chapter by Swedish writers Bodil Axelsson and Karin Becker analyses Sound Machine, a collaborative contemporary art project that was developed integrally with university activities in research and teaching. This interface opened up the rare possibility of participant research into the work processes of a well-known European collaborative artist, Esther Shalev-Gerz. The researchers trace different modes of engagement with participating non-artist subjects - such as the women who provide 'cultural memory' of earlier forms of work and engagement with technology - as well as other forms of participation essential for Sound Machine's conceptual, technical and institutional development.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Always on the Move? : An ethnographic study of street vendors
- 2009
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Ingår i: KulturNatur/ACSIS konferens för kulturstudier i Sverige.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper examines methods developed for a study of street vendors as entrepreneurs, focusing on the positions they occupy in the mix of urban public life, and looking at cities across the globe. We approach vending from a cross-disciplinary perspective, investigating it as a many faceted form of business enterprise, with a particular focus on the visual and esthetic aspects of the practice. Current research on vending tends to focus on a specific type of vending (farmers’ markets, indoor markets), on specific cities, and/or specific groups of “global peddlers”– usually immigrants from a different region or country. Our aim is somewhat different: to examine the phenomenon across a range of geographic locations and to trace the diversity of vending as a practice, in particular the various forms it takes in public space and the motivations that draw or drive vendors to do this kind of work.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Art in the Underground
- 2009
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Ingår i: Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. - London : Sage. - 9781412920865 - 9781412920858 ; , s. 209-209
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Att synliggöra fältet. Fotografi och reflexiv etnografi
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nutida etnografi. - Nora : Nya Doxa. - 9157804494 - 9789157804495 ; , s. 149-172
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Erfarenheter från etnografiskt fältarbete bland människor och medier i ett modernat köpcentrum. Ett antal teoretisk fält presenteras: cultural studies, etnografisk medieforskning, hermenutik och den reflexiva etnografins tradition. CD-skiva medföljer
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Att ta plats och skapa rum
- 2004
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Ingår i: Katalog / Statens konstråd. - 1651-4564. ; 34, s. 175-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Awakening the past, Expressing the present : Stories of photography, migration and belief in a Mexican village
- 2014
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Ingår i: Photographic Powers. - Helsinki : Aalto University. - 9789526063928 ; , s. 308-333
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How may the practice of photography shift ways of looking at oneself and at one's community? Can creating visual narratives also support reexamining the past, whereby old pictures and other objects gain new significance? This article addresses these questions in a study of several workshops on transmedial storytelling in the town of St. Ana Zegache, Oaxaca, Mexico. We chose photography as the primary medium for the workshops, based on our interest in the visual vernacular and the relative ease of using simple cameras to acquire first-person accounts of everyday experience. We did not anticipate that participants would seize the opportunity to work across media, to include other objects and images, weaving alternative histories into their stories.We found that telling stories through photographs opened possibilities for some participants to reinterpret experiences of the self in relation to place, community and beliefs. This became ‘empowering’ in the moment when each person presented his or her story, sharing this reinterpretation with other workshop participants, simultaneously re-enacting his or her place within the community. Examples included experiences of migration, familial relations, and their own creative practice.Old photographs and objects, as repositories of histories and memories, acquired new dimensions when incorporated into contemporary stories. Participants also reflected on the value of their narratives beyond the immediate community, to people elsewhere who would be interested in the culture of Zegache, and ‘how we live here.’ They saw the digital interface as a network offering the possibility of sharing their stories with an audience from afar. The reflexive power of photography in this context revealed the image as multidimensional, beyond visual representation, encompassing both individual and collective experience.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Being there from afar : the media event relocated to the public viewing area
- 2014
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Ingår i: Interactions. - Intellect : Intellect Ltd.. - 1757-2681 .- 1757-269X. ; 5:2, s. 153-168
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the media event as re-located to public viewing areas (PVAs) erected in cities across the globe, where people gather to watch the events together live on screen. The study is based on ethnographic research carried out in PVAs located in selected cities during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics. We examine the relationships between these events, as reconstituted in these different locations through media networks, and the public’s participation via the event on screen. The PVA emerges as a new location of experience and participation, with its own histories as a place of attraction for the local public and for visitors from afar, in what Massey (1994) would describe as an ‘intersection of local and global social relations’. The host city arena is no longer the self-evident ”centre” for this event, which has been pluralized through the complex web of media structures and the activities of participants who come to experience the event in these other, dispersed locations.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Bilder som uppträder
- 2011
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Ingår i: Årsbok KFoU 2011, Form och färdriktning. - Stockholm : 010 Publishers.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cinésenseprojektet ägde rum på gator och torg, i vänthallar och shoppingtempel, bibliotek, butiker och skyltfönster. Dramatiskt kondenserade karaktärer introducerades för en oinvigd publik på en offentlig plats. Konstnärer och forskare undersökte tillsammans hur tid och rum på och framför skärmen (i och utanför fiktionen) kan vävas ihop till en mer performativ rymd.Projektet undersökte hur man utvecklar ett interaktivt berättande inom film men också hur en betraktare – vars roll utökats till att bli en mer eller mindre ofrivillig deltagare – påverkas? Växelspelet är avgörande; filmens utgångspunkt är att provocera fram en nyfikenhet som i sin tur utmanar filmen till att ta till nya konstgrepp.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Constructing the Image of the Fan : The World Cup 2010
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Images of fans have a central place in the media construction of mega-sport events. In this paper we examine this phenomenon, drawing on fieldwork carried out during the football World Cup 2010. The study is part of a project investigating how local and transnational events are mediated through large format screens in public space, and including the public’s media practices. Here we trace fans’ performance of identity in several of the public viewing areas (PVAs) established for the World Cup. First we look at the identities that are negotiated and expressed within PVAs. In what ways are local, national and regional identities mixed and recast within the context of the event? Then we turn to the media flow, where we find that the screen content in each venue must be understood both in terms of broadcasting and narrowcasting, and address the questions: How do professional media report in and from the fan parks? Finally, how do these reports relate to coverage from the stadiums? Despite visual similarities and reciprocity between the performance of fandom in PVAs and the image of the fan that is broadcast transnationally, the images serve different functions in these different venues.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Digital Aesthetics : Comments
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 25:1-2, s. 53-56
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- Becker, Karin E., 1946-
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Gestures of Seeing : Amateur Photographers in the News
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper examines the amateur photographer as a common figure in contemporary news photographs, focusing on how the amateur’s gestures signify in journalism’s coverage of media events. Drawing on theories of photography as performance and ritual, I argue that the presence of the non-professional in the news photograph destabilizes journalistic discourse by challenging the role of the professional photographer and by redefining the event and its meanings. This is especially critical in coverage of catastrophic events, when the amateur’s gestures become a form of witnessing, carrying both private and collective meanings for how the event will be understood in the future. I conclude with a discussion of how journalism resolves this challenge by employing the image of the amateur instrumentally as “eyewitness” in a move that retains journalism’s authority while acknowledging the vernacular perspective and the values of participatory media culture.
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- Becker, Karin E., 1946-, et al.
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Street Vendors as Global Entrepreneurs
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines street vendors as entrepreneurs in the mix of urban public life. While current research focuses on specific groups of ‘global peddlers’– particularly migrants - we trace the diversity of street sellers across geographic locations, from those who manage year-round stalls in fixed places, to those who carry their goods on their backs in cities far from home. For some it is seasonal work, for others it is a way to supplement a steady income, while for others vending is a way to get by.Vendors establish connections to other cultures and places, through their wares and their performances in public space. Many use media including the Internet to market their wares, or to maintain networks and support among vendors. Vending emerges as a cosmopolitan practice, involving commodification of culture and cultural products, that creates links between diverse localities and histories, performed in cities across the globe.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Gatuförsäljare som globala entreprenörer
- 2014
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Ingår i: Det globaliserade arbetslivet. - : Gidlund i samarbete med Arbetets museum. - 9789178449125 ; , s. 25-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Gestures of Seeing : Amateur photographers in the news
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. - : SAGE Publications. - 1464-8849 .- 1741-3001. ; 16:4, s. 451-469
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the amateur photographer as a common figure in contemporary news photographs, focusing on how the amateur’s gestures signify in journalism’s coverage of media events. Drawing on theories of photography as performance and ritual, I argue that the presence of the non-professional in the news photograph destabilizes journalistic discourse by challenging the role of the professional photographer and by redefining the event and its meanings. This is especially critical in coverage of catastrophic events, when the amateur’s gestures become a form of witnessing from a participant’s perspective, carrying both private and collective meanings for how the event will be understood in the future, and undermining the authority of journalism.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Historier från Santa Ana : Berättelser om konst och tro i en mexikansk by
- 2016
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Ingår i: Fiktion och verklighet. - Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170611988 ; , s. 171-194
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Texten följer hur figuren Santa Ana, Marias moder och katolskt skyddshelgon, framställs i olika sammanhang, medier och föreställande former i en by i södra Mexiko som bär helgonets namn. På vilka olika sätt kan Santa Ana - helgonfiguren såväl som platsen - träda fram i mötet mellan två skilda sociokulturella sammanhang där de relitiösa och politiska axlarna korsas? Tolkningarna som Santa Ana-berättelserna ger upphov till skifter mellan olika medietyper och lokaliteter, i vilka olika varianter av religiositet och konstnärligthet flätas ihop.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Icons of protest in the visual cultures of news
- 2019
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Ingår i: Screening Protest. - London : Routledge. - 9781138042131 - 9781315173894 ; , s. 120-147
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent scholarship on media witnessing, where street protest provides a clear example, has noted how images attain agency, ‘exceeding their frames’ as they call for an active response (Taylor 2003). This chapter addresses this phenomenon in a study of selected political protests, comparing their visual representations on screen in news coverage by four global television channels and in international award-winning press photographs. Is it possible to identify visual icons in this coverage, images that can be expected to shape how these events are remembered and that may reappear in future protests? Or has the photographic icon, as some scholars have suggested (Goldberg 1991), become a thing of the past?
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Mobilising Participation in Sound Machine by Esther Shalev-Gerz
- 2011
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Ingår i: The Art of Engagement. - Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing. - 9781742582870 ; , s. 183-198
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Art of Engagement explores the dynamics of arts-business-community collaborations, including their aesthetic, social and political dimensions. The chapter by Swedish writers Axelsson and Becker analyses Sound Machine, a collaborative contemporary art project that was developed integrally with university activities in research and teaching. This interface opened up the possibility of participant research into the work of well-known European collaborative artist, Esther Shalev-Gerz. The researchers trace different modes of engagement with participating non-artist subjects - such as the women who provide 'cultural memory' of earlier forms of work and engagement with technology - as well as other forms of participation essential for Sound Machine's conceptual, technical and institutional development.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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More than a Portrait : Framing the Photograph as Sculpture and Video Animation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Membrana. - : Membrana Institute. - 2463-8501. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay traces the resurrection of the fotoescultura, a three-dimensional photographic portrait popular in rural Mexico in the early 20th century, as interpreted in recent works by Performing Pictures, a contemporary Swedish artist duo. The early fotoesculturas were an augmented form of portraiture, commissioned by family members who supplied photographs that artisans in Mexico City converted into framed sculptural portraits for display on family altars. We compare these ‘traditional’ photographic objects with ‘new’ digital forms of video animation on screen and in public space that characterize Performing Pictures' work, and explore how the fotoescultura inspired new incarnations of their series Men that Fall. At the intersection between the material aspects of a ‘traditional’ vernacular art form and ‘new’ media art, we identify a photographic aesthetic that shifts from seeing and perceiving to physical engagement, and discuss how the frame and its parergon augment the photographic gaze. The essay is accompanied by photos and video stills from Performing Pictures’ film poem Dreaming the Memories of Now (2018), depicting their work with the fotoesculturas.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Performing the News
- 2013
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Ingår i: Photographies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1754-0763 .- 1754-0771. ; 6:1, s. 17-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Photographs of non-professionals taking pictures are a common feature of contemporary journalism. Drawing on theories of photography as performance and ritual, this article addresses what it means when professionals include these photographing “others” in their images ofnews events. It argues that the image of the amateur, performing photography in the news, shifts and destabilizes journalistic discourse. Using examples from the daily press, the article accounts for these “meta-pictures” as a manifestation of participatory visual culture dating from 9/11, examines specific ways they challenge the authority of the professional andconsiders how they alter the significance of the media event.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Photography in the Age of Screen Culture
- 2014
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Ingår i: #snapshot. - Helsinki : Finnish Museum of Photography. ; , s. 17-20
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Photography in the Age of Screen Culture
- 2012
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Ingår i: Thinking photography I - using photography II. - Stockholm : Centrum för Fotografi. - 9789163705748 ; , s. 153-158
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press
- 2003
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Ingår i: The Photography Reader. - : Routledge. ; , s. 291-308
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Protest in the Photo Essay : Following tradition or breaking new ground?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Membrana. - : Membrana Institute. - 2463-8501 .- 2712-4894. ; 4:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The photo essay, a form of visual journalism that arose during the era of the picture magazines, has reemerged as a regular feature of global news channels, including CNN, BBC World, and, notably, Al Jazeera English, recognized for its live reporting of political unrest. In 2017, a year marked by protest around the world, AJE published over 200 photo-series, including 37 on public protest. An analysis based in a four-year study of protest on screen, revealed that these photo essays share characteristics that in turn distinguish them from video broadcasts of public protests. The photo-reportage on screen, like its classic forerunner in print, employs a variety of visual perspectives and focuses on participants who are often quoted and identified by name. Scenes of public protest are complemented by visual and textual reporting from the private/domestic sphere. This visual strategy, in contrast to the immediacy of video coverage from the streets, supports knowledge of the protest issue and engagement with its participants.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Protest skozi fotoesej : Slediti tradiciji ali orati ledino?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Fotografija. - 1408-3566. ; :88-89, s. 76-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The photo essay, a form of visual journalism that arose during the era of the picture magazines, has reemerged as a regular feature of global news channels, including CNN, BBC World, and, notably, Al Jazeera English, recognized for its live reporting of political unrest. In 2017, a year marked by protest around the world, AJE published over 200 photo-series, including 37 on public protest. An analysis based on a four-year study of protest on screen revealed that these photo essays share characteristics that in turn distinguish them from video broadcasts of public protests. The photo-reportage on screen, like its classic forerunner in print, employs a variety of visual perspectives and focuses on participants who are often quoted and identified by name. Scenes of public protest are complemented by visual and textual reporting from the private/domestic sphere. This visual strategy, in contrast to the immediacy of video coverage from the streets, supports knowledge of the protest issue and engagement with its participants.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Street Vendors as Global Entrepreneurs
- 2009
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Ingår i: Body Soul Society/Nordmedia 09.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a study of street vendors as entrepreneurs and the positions they occupy in the mix of urban public life. While current research on vendors focuses on specific groups of “global peddlers”– particularly migrants - in specific cities, we trace the diversity of this global phenomenon across geographic locations, ranging from those who manage year-round stalls in fixed places near where they live, to those who carry their goods on their backs in cities far from home. For some it is seasonal work, following fairs and festivals, for others it is a steady job, and for many it is a way to scrape by as they try to get a footing somewhere. Here we examine the ways vendors establish connections to other cultures and places, through the wares they sell and how they present themselves and their products in public space. We find many who use media and particularly Internet to develop and market their wares, and also to maintain organizational networks and support among vendors. Vending emerges as a cosmopolitan practice, involving commodification of culture and cultural products, that creates links between diverse localities and histories, performed in cities across the globe.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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The Diaspora on Display : Production, Performance and Media Practices in Urban Space
- 2008
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper takes its point of departure in a broader study of street vendors and the positions they occupy in the mix of urban public life. In many city environments vending and other forms of public practice have been increasingly subject to regulation. Debates arise over how public space is used, focusing on the visual quality and aesthetics of a particular display or practice, without directly addressing the often equally controversial issue of the social or ethnic group responsible for the display.In the present paper we select two aspects of the initial study for a closer examination among a broader sample of vendors. First, we examine the ways street vending is often extended into a range of media practices. While they rarely rent a locale, vendors are quite likely to have a home page and an email address, linked to the marketing of their wares. The sale of records, DVDs and other media products may also be part of their business. Second, we look more specifically at vending as a migratory phenomenon, with links between individuals and communities in different countries. In what sense do the vendors who are not “native” to the place where they are selling their wares see themselves as linked to other places and communities? Whereas in some cases vending provides a way of establishing a base in a new country or community, for others it provides experience and income that is needed in order to support and return home.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Transmedial spaces, transmedial stories : Co-creating religious artefacts
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper traces a collaboration between Stockholm-based video artists and an artisan workshop in the village of Zegache St. Ana in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the co-production of a video animation of the local patron saint St. Ana, mother of Mary. It examines the narratives of locality, religion and artistic practice that the animation gives rise to as it moves across different media platforms and locales. Religious (re-)inventiveness has played a crucial role in the cultural resilience of the indigenous population of Oaxaca. The venerative practices of Zapotecos, Mixtecos and Nahuas, though firmly Catholic in their faith, have repeatedly challenged the sacrament-orientated hierarchies of the Hispanicized clergy.Today the church of Santa Ana Zegache constitutes the artistic, cultural and spiritual landmark of the town. Twenty years ago, this 16th-century building, and all of its artwork, was in ruins. The Community Workshop of Zegache was established to train local women in various techniques of conservation and restoration. A decade later these local people had restored the the church to its past splendor - a masterpiece of "Indian Baroque" – and the community workshop had grown to 17 members, both men and women.In 2008, the Stockholm-based video artists, Performing Pictures started a long-term collaboration with the Zegache artisans. Several inter-active video shrines with animated saints and apparitions are the result of this artistic, cultural and technical exchange. Together they have shaped new outlets for venerative practice that combine crafts with media technology, electronics and animation.The paper examines the meaning of these works first, for the artists and artisans, and second, for other residents of Zegache, as they encounter the animated figure of St. Ana in different spaces and media formats. Its point of departure is the production of the video animation of St. Ana in November 2011, and its first local showing as an iPhone app. The second phase of the project involved building a small, solar powered chapel at the entrance of the town, to house the video-animation. Phase three is a workshop in digital story-telling to be carried out in March 2013, asking both children and adults to record their own stories of the meanings St. Ana has for the town. Plans are being developed to extend the project to include members of the Zegache expatriate community living in Oregon.
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-
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Vardagsfotografin som social praktik
- 2004. - 1
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Ingår i: Bild och samhälle. Visuell analys som vetenskaplig metod. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9144032374 - 9789144032375 ; , s. 289-308
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lika närvarande som bilder är i vardagslivets fotoalbum, i TV-sändningar, i reklamkampanjer och i olika visuella uttryck som exempelvis mode, lika frånvarande är de inom samhällsvetenskapens huvudfåra. Denna bok avser fylla detta tomrum. I boken har 13 framstående forskare gått samman och författat kapitel som bland annat tar upp visualisering av datamaterial, vardagsfotografi, modefotografi, dokumentärfilm och webbsidor. Volymen innehåller även ett omfattande introduktionskapitel som ger en historisk tillbakablick samt översikt av aktuell forskning inom visuella studier. Genomgående för bidragen är att de tar upp hur man praktiskt går tillväga för att bedriva empiriska studier av och med bilder. Betoningen i boken ligger på metod och integrationen mellan empiri och teori. Författarna kommer från flera olika discipliner, mediavetenskap, socialantropologi, konstvetenskap och sociologi. Boken vänder sig till alla som är intresserade av bildens betydelse i samhället, och särskilt till den som själv vill genomföra empiriska studier
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Veneration and Wonder : The politics of making art in an Oaxacan village
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-4214. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines a 5-year collaboration between the Stockholm-based video artists Performing Pictures and Talleres Comunitarios, a studio based in the Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache where local artisans employ traditional skills in the restoration of religious artifacts. In images and text, we trace the exchange of skills, knowledge, and aesthetic sensibility that took place as these two groups of artists collaborated in producing a series of video animations of venerative objects, against a backdrop of religious, social, and political tensions that characterize everyday life in Zegache. In the article and the accompanying series of three short films, ‘‘Wonder & Veneration 13’’ (http://vimeo. com/album/2682070), we examine how the artists negotiate questions of aesthetics and religious belief as their collaboration unfolds within the context of the Zegache community, where the Talleres contribute skills of carpentry and painting, while Performing Pictures provides skills of film, animation and micro-electronics. The processes and practices involved in creating three works provides the framework for this examination: the first, an animation of the Virgin of Guadalupe as she appears to a simple peasant, and the second, produced 2 years later, an animation of Santa Ana, local patron saint and mother of Maria, as she teaches her daughter to read the scriptures. Whereas both figures are central to the syncretic religious belief of southern Mexico with its challenge to the entrenched authority of the hispanicized clergy, the local figure of Santa Ana carries even more complex meanings for the community of Zegache. These meanings are embodied in the third work we examine, a small solarpowered chapel that the artists built to display the Santa Ana animation. With the mayor’s support and located at the entrance to the town, the chapel embodies a shift of power away from the church, standing as an example of indigenous empowerment in civil society.
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Visual Cultures of Journalism
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Ingår i: Journalism Cultures. - Berlin : Vistas. - 9783938258736
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Visual culture continues to be seen as peripheral to journalism, despite the centrality of image flows and visual technologies in both the private and public spheres of contemporary media. This chapter addresses this lacuna, first by elaborating central concepts and theoretical tents from the field of visual culture, and then by suggesting how they can contribute to a better understanding of the cultures of journalism, viewed both historically and in the present media environment
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- Becker, Karin, 1946-, et al.
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Visual Frictions
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Ingår i: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-4214. ; 7:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Visuality is an increasingly contested phenomenon. Rarely stable and never “pure,” the visual is always intertwined with other senses and expressive forms and is often implicated in multiple power relations. Whether as part of social and cultural practices, or as utilized in social scientific inquiry and investigation, the visual exerts a power that continues to challenge and be challenged by other ways of knowing. This power is especially apparent when we consider visuality in its digital manifestations: as visually based media expand their purview across social, cultural, and geographic space we find they are often in “friction” with established norms, structures, and modes of expression. In this themed issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, the authors have been invited to explore these issues, under the rubric of “Visual Frictions.”
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Visual Vernaculars and the News
- 2005
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Ingår i: Nordic Network for the History and Aesthetics of Photography,2005.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Visuella kulturstudier
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Ingår i: Kulturstudier i Sverige. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144019994 - 9144019998 ; , s. 255-297
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kulturstudier är ett ämne där många olika perspektiv på kulturella fenomen i samhället kan mötas. I dagens Sverige är detta tvärvetenskapliga fält livligt och aktivt. I den här boken presenteras aktuella frågor inom den gränsöverskridande forskningen. I överblickar tecknas bilden av kulturforskningens utveckling, såväl globalt som lokalt. Dessutom porträtteras en rad delområden, från undersökningar om urbanitet och intersektionalitet till studier av mode och visuell kultur. Begrepp som kritik och konstruktion sätts under luppen, och kulturstudiernas framtid diskuteras. Boken vänder sig till studenter och forskare på området. Den fungerar både som översiktlig introduktion till vår tids svenska kulturstudier och som fördjupande exemplifiering av hur kulturella fenomen kan förstås.
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Watching Football in the Fan Park : Mediatization, Spectatorship and Fan Identity
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures. - Burlington VT : Ashgate. - 9781409455622 - 9781315612959 ; , s. 275-288
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The football fan park, originally a surrogate stadium for fans without tickets, has now become a live venue in its own right, and a new arena in the culture of football fandom. In these sites of exceptionally high media density, football fan identities become increasingly flexible and mobile as participants in these venues interact with an increasingly mediatized social environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in FIFA Fan Parks during the 2010 World Cup, we argue that the fan park, as a mediatized space, has become a site where fan identities are constructed in new ways, facilitating a cosmopolitan understanding of football.
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