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| The scMOI logo was designed by Nanna Koekoek. This picture (our logo) shows a man looking into a mirror. He sees himself from behind. This can be interpreted in various ways. One way is to assume that the man can only look upon himself in the same way that others look upon him, as the “me” in social relations. This may point towards the limitations of the senses (which are not visible in the mirror) in perceiving the world around us, and the necessity to rely upon shared experience. The name of the conference, sc’MOI [c’est moi], highlights the person of the researcher in the production of knowledge, and the need for recognising this by embodying reflexivity -Casper Hoedemaekers | |
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The sc'MOI
logo is an interpretation of a painting by René Magritte,
the surrealist painter who is best known for his painting “Ceci
n’est pas une pipe”. Nanna designed the logo to incorporate
several themes, including the difficulties in representation, the role
of the author in his/her work, psychoanalytic themes, politics, the unconscious,
etc. I think the logo plays with some of these issues. |
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The sc'MOI
logo presents us with a self-reflexive quesion. To the left is a photo
of Nahdion, who looks into the mirror. Grace Ann Rosile maintains a web
site about her special inter-species communication: Horsesenseatwork.com |
Robert Crumb's self-relfexive cartoon, appeared on the 1994 cover of Self-Loathing Comics; we put sc'MOI over his image; sometimes what we self-reflect is a glimpse of grotesque realism. For more on carnivalesque grotesque reflexivity: Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1968. Rabelais and his World. Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Cambridge/London: The M.I.T. Press. Byman, Timoth & Roger Malbert. 2000. Carnivalesque. London: Haywood Gallery Publishing. See p. 73 for black & white image of Crumb's cartoon. |
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