WSA Conf.
WSA Post Graduate Conference
13th Feb 2013
Winchester School of Art
SO23 8DL
The annual Postgraduate Conference and Exhibition at Winchester School of Art provides an opportunity for postgraduates from across the School to present their research in the form of papers and exhibits. As always, we have a fascinating selection of topics covering a range of disciplines, from practice-based Fine Art and Communication Design, through to Advertising Design Management. Those presenting are representative of the international reach of the School, and of the vibrancy of its research, through their innovative approaches to the creation of knowledge, in object, text or digital form.
During the Conference, seven projects will be presented as papers, giving a snapshot of the full range of postgraduate research, from Masters students' major projects to PhD research at various stages of development. The Gallery presentation includes new works by five practice-based PhD students, two of whom will also present conference papers.
These events together provide a means of showcasing individual research and the opportunity to develop collective themes to assist us in the task we have set ourselves, to debate key issues in art, design and media for the 21st Century. I hope you will join us in this celebration of the best of the School's postgraduate work.
10.25-11.00 Georgina Williams 
11.00-11.35 Nicky-Athina Polymeri 
11.55-12.15 Panita Mahanonda 
12.15-12.50 Rima Chahrour 
14.00-14.35 Jane Birkin 
14:35-14:55 Ioanna Kanellia 
15:15-15:50 Kate Hawkins 
Propaganda postulates a reality that is calculatedly distorted; as Guy Debord asserts, those who maintain historical myths proliferate illusion for their own ends.
This correlates with the propagandist's intention to evince a more meaningful reality attainable through ideological and social changes. T. E. Hulme's assertion that one is 'not concerned with truth, but with success' demonstrates propaganda's protocol of both interpretation and distortion of a future which is attractively advertised to elicit suitable emotional responses from individuals within a mass.
The consequent utilisation of visual constructs known to be effective in instigating the required response from within that mass enhance the conditions of possibility whereby current and alternate realities can be illustrated in propagandist poster art, as well as in a counter-propagandist aesthetic response.
Through intertextuality of visual as well as literary and philosophical ideas, this paper examines the ideological construction of both present and future realities and their dependence on visual genealogy, experience and reflection.
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