Ilustrada - International Meeting on Illustration (18th February, 2016)

Open call until December 15th, 2015. 

The ilustrada (“illustrated”) is a conference on illustration that will have its first edition on February 18, 2016, in the Auditorium of the Library of the University of Beira Interior. We want this event to be repeated annually, marking through it the routine of opening of the second semester. The organization of the journey has the support of the LabCom.IFP research unit belonging to the Faculty of Arts and Letters. However, and despite his apparent affinity with the training areas of the universe in which it is placed, to deviate it from this epicenter to the Library will allow to make other audiences aware of its existence and become involved in the set of dynamics that it intends to create around itself.

By definition, illustration is an area that calls many others, in a more obvious or subtle way, crossing the different formation areas of the Department of Communication and Arts and reflecting itself somehow in all of them, with natural emphasis on the image areas. Every year, the ilustrada will seek to bring to UBI a variety of national and international guests who may contribute to reflect on illustration and its relationship with areas such as design, drawing, animation, fashion and science, among others, in the perspective of the academic world of illustrators, their publics, editors and galleries that, increasingly, open their spaces exclusively to the exposure of this kind of work. More than anything, this meeting aims to provide a space for reflection around the topic of illustration in its different dimensions, scope and applications, underlining through it the approach and the intersection of diverse artistic subjects and the potential that comes from bridges established between them and a consequent sense of restlessness and effervescence that helps to explain the current dynamism generated around this universe and its multiple related issues. We are interested in the performative, hybrid and heterogeneous potential of these (meta)languages, their permanent regenerative capacity and constant media presence, to try to understand how they condition and/or expand our visual culture and, through it, our eyes and way of seeing. We are also motivated by what in it allows us to search (or rediscover) what can remain from a certain physical sense of our relationship with the image both as creators and as observers.

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Support:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
União Europeia
Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional
Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade
Universidade da Beira Interior
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