Periodic Reporting for period 1 - VISUALTRUST (VISUAL TRUST. Reliability, accountability and forgery in scientific, religious and social images)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-10-01 do 2023-03-31
To carry out this project, we will investigate the relationships of (mis)trust different individuals establish with three different types of images: “social images”, “religious images” and “scientific images”. We will also seek for the intersection between the attitudes, conceptualizations and practices associated to these images. What is a Faker image in religion? Why we “believe” in scientific images? How we recognized “forgery” in digital images? These are some of the questions to be explored.
1) Six reports submitted to the ERC: 1) Data Management Plan (Requirement No. 21); 2) Risk assessment plan (Requirement No. 26); 3) Unexpected Findings Policy (Requirement No. 7); 4) Benefit-sharing Policy (Requirement No. 23); 5) Ethics Approvals (Requirement No. 8); 6) first Ethics Report (Requirement No. 27). Currently (on 12 May 2023), we are currently drafting the first Periodic Reporting.
2) Researchers' fieldwork: The ethnographic research of this project is mainly carried out in Europe (especially Spain), India and Puerto Rico. Specific agreements have been signed with institutions in these non-European countries. An important part of the research and academic activities is carried out online.
3) Published results: A) News: 1) La imatge anticipatòria (7.2.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cultura-digital/la-imatge-anticipatoria-234834. Author: Roger Canals; 2) Crema París? El (fals) atac rus sobre la capital francesa (5.4.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cinema/crema-paris-245829. Author: Roger Canals; 3) Que ve el llop! El ChatGPT i les universitats (22.2.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cultura-digital/que-ve-el-llop-el-chatgpt-i-les-universitats-306438. Author: Roger Canals. B) Journal articles: 1) Visual Trust. Fake images in the Russia-Ukraine War (15.12.22). Anthropology Today. Author: Roger Canals; 2) Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Religious, Scientific and Social Images (1.8.22). Author: Roger Canals. Anthrovision; 3) Les imatges que mai no veurem: apunts sobre visualitat i pandemia (9.8.22). Revista d’Etnologia de Catalunya. Author: Roger Canals: 4) Imatge i religió. Un debat obert (30.11.22). Oficina d'Afers Religiosos. Cultura, Educació, Ciència i Comunitat. Authors: Roger Canals and Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. C) Book chapters: 1) Healing, Images, and Trust (1.4.23). Book: Other worlds, other bodies. Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing. Author: Roger Canals. D) Short-films: 1) The Promised Image (April 2023). Authors: Roger Canals and Mihai Andrei Leaha. https://vimeo.com/827555465?share=copy. 2) The Color of Spirits (May 2023). Author: Roger Canals. 3) Verdade (April 2023). Author: Mihai Andrei Leaha. 4) Seeing and being seeing: Possession, caste and gender in the Indian Himalayas – Interview with Alice Van den Bogaert (May 2023). Interviewer: Roger Canals. Video Editing: Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. 5) New technologies, New visual agents – Interview with Ferran Marqués (May 2023). Interviewer: Roger Canals. Video Editing: Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. Image and Sound: Amanda Bernal, Mihai Andrei Leaha and Juan Francisco D. Cuyás.
4) Seven seminars: 1) Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Wisconsin) – 17.5.22 “The Opacity of Symbolic Communication” 2) Dr. Els Lagrou (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro) – 8.6.22 “The figuration of the invisible: the encounter between Andy Warburg and the amerindian art” 3) David Airob (Fotoperiodista) – 6.7.22 “La confiança en el fotoperiodisme”. 4) Quim Salazar (advocat) – 17.10.22 “Dret i imatge: un debat obert”. 5) Ferran Marqués Acosta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) – 14.11.22 “Noves technologies. Nous agents visuals”. 6) Alice Van den Bogaert (Doctora en Antropología Social y Cultural) – 17.1.23 “Ver y ser vista: posesión, castas y género en el Himalaya indio” 7) Edgar Teodoro da Cunha (Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho) – 7.3.23 “La antropología y sus imágenes: la ciencia y la construcción de Brasil como alteridad”
5) Participation in conferences and congresses: 1) RAI2022: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (10.6.22). 2) EASA Conference 2022 (27.7.22). 3) APA 2022 (7.9.22). 4) The Art and Science of Visual Research that took place in Antwerp (11 – 14.10.22). 5) Screening and discussion of the documentary: "Allò que no et mata…” (21.11.22). 6) Anthropology Week – ICA (Catalan Institute of Anthropology) (23.11.22). 7) DataViz for Society (2-3.12.22). 8) Multimodal Digital Curating (19.1.23). 9) Conferences in Puerto Rico presented by Roger Canals during his fieldwork (30.1.23 – 17.2.23). A) Title: “Un proyecto de antropología visual sobre ética de la imagen social, científica y religiose” (1.2.23) B) Title: “Debates abiertos de la antropología visual” (9.2.23) C) Title: “Charla sobre estudios graduados en Barcelona y Antropología Visual” (15.2.23). 10) Conference in India presented by Juan Francisco D. Cuyás during his fieldwork (India. 31.1.23 – 24.4.23). A) Ethnographic Photography Class at Delhi University (7.2.23) 11) Mobile World Congress (27.2.23 – 2.3.23). 12) RAI FILM FESTIVAL (8.3.23. 13) Department of Anthropology (UB) (15.3.23). 14) Conference at the Centro de Arte La Regenta (Canary Island) (4.5.23).
6) Creation of the website: We created the website to publish the provisional and final results of the project. Thus, the website serves as a repository, where the academic and general public can find texts, videos and notes in open access. We have a news section where we publish the latest news about the project, presentations at congresses and conferences, or the researchers' field work. And also, we have a section entitled "On-Going Research" where we publish the work of the research team: short films, articles and reflections.
7) Submission of short films to festivals: One type of research output of the project is short or feature-length films. Our intention is to disseminate our research as widely as possible so that it reaches the widest possible public. We want to share knowledge, this is one of the objectives of the project. Therefore, we have sent the short film "The Promised Image" to the following festivals: A) Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, B) NAFA, C) The Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, D) TRAJECTORIA vol.5 Entry Sheet, E) 32ND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOLOGICAL FILM.
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8) Preparations for the first international conference: As specified in the Grant Agreement, the project will hold three international conferences. The first conference to reflect on "Image-Making" will be held on 12, 13 and 14 June 2023.
2) Researchers' fieldwork: The ethnographic research of this project is mainly carried out in Europe (especially Spain), India and Puerto Rico. Specific agreements have been signed with institutions in these non-European countries. An important part of the research and academic activities is carried out online.
3) Published results: A) News: 1) La imatge anticipatòria (7.2.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cultura-digital/la-imatge-anticipatoria-234834. Author: Roger Canals; 2) Crema París? El (fals) atac rus sobre la capital francesa (5.4.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cinema/crema-paris-245829. Author: Roger Canals; 3) Que ve el llop! El ChatGPT i les universitats (22.2.23). https://www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cultura-digital/que-ve-el-llop-el-chatgpt-i-les-universitats-306438. Author: Roger Canals. B) Journal articles: 1) Visual Trust. Fake images in the Russia-Ukraine War (15.12.22). Anthropology Today. Author: Roger Canals; 2) Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Religious, Scientific and Social Images (1.8.22). Author: Roger Canals. Anthrovision; 3) Les imatges que mai no veurem: apunts sobre visualitat i pandemia (9.8.22). Revista d’Etnologia de Catalunya. Author: Roger Canals: 4) Imatge i religió. Un debat obert (30.11.22). Oficina d'Afers Religiosos. Cultura, Educació, Ciència i Comunitat. Authors: Roger Canals and Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. C) Book chapters: 1) Healing, Images, and Trust (1.4.23). Book: Other worlds, other bodies. Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing. Author: Roger Canals. D) Short-films: 1) The Promised Image (April 2023). Authors: Roger Canals and Mihai Andrei Leaha. https://vimeo.com/827555465?share=copy. 2) The Color of Spirits (May 2023). Author: Roger Canals. 3) Verdade (April 2023). Author: Mihai Andrei Leaha. 4) Seeing and being seeing: Possession, caste and gender in the Indian Himalayas – Interview with Alice Van den Bogaert (May 2023). Interviewer: Roger Canals. Video Editing: Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. 5) New technologies, New visual agents – Interview with Ferran Marqués (May 2023). Interviewer: Roger Canals. Video Editing: Juan Francisco D. Cuyás. Image and Sound: Amanda Bernal, Mihai Andrei Leaha and Juan Francisco D. Cuyás.
4) Seven seminars: 1) Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Wisconsin) – 17.5.22 “The Opacity of Symbolic Communication” 2) Dr. Els Lagrou (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro) – 8.6.22 “The figuration of the invisible: the encounter between Andy Warburg and the amerindian art” 3) David Airob (Fotoperiodista) – 6.7.22 “La confiança en el fotoperiodisme”. 4) Quim Salazar (advocat) – 17.10.22 “Dret i imatge: un debat obert”. 5) Ferran Marqués Acosta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) – 14.11.22 “Noves technologies. Nous agents visuals”. 6) Alice Van den Bogaert (Doctora en Antropología Social y Cultural) – 17.1.23 “Ver y ser vista: posesión, castas y género en el Himalaya indio” 7) Edgar Teodoro da Cunha (Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho) – 7.3.23 “La antropología y sus imágenes: la ciencia y la construcción de Brasil como alteridad”
5) Participation in conferences and congresses: 1) RAI2022: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society (10.6.22). 2) EASA Conference 2022 (27.7.22). 3) APA 2022 (7.9.22). 4) The Art and Science of Visual Research that took place in Antwerp (11 – 14.10.22). 5) Screening and discussion of the documentary: "Allò que no et mata…” (21.11.22). 6) Anthropology Week – ICA (Catalan Institute of Anthropology) (23.11.22). 7) DataViz for Society (2-3.12.22). 8) Multimodal Digital Curating (19.1.23). 9) Conferences in Puerto Rico presented by Roger Canals during his fieldwork (30.1.23 – 17.2.23). A) Title: “Un proyecto de antropología visual sobre ética de la imagen social, científica y religiose” (1.2.23) B) Title: “Debates abiertos de la antropología visual” (9.2.23) C) Title: “Charla sobre estudios graduados en Barcelona y Antropología Visual” (15.2.23). 10) Conference in India presented by Juan Francisco D. Cuyás during his fieldwork (India. 31.1.23 – 24.4.23). A) Ethnographic Photography Class at Delhi University (7.2.23) 11) Mobile World Congress (27.2.23 – 2.3.23). 12) RAI FILM FESTIVAL (8.3.23. 13) Department of Anthropology (UB) (15.3.23). 14) Conference at the Centro de Arte La Regenta (Canary Island) (4.5.23).
6) Creation of the website: We created the website to publish the provisional and final results of the project. Thus, the website serves as a repository, where the academic and general public can find texts, videos and notes in open access. We have a news section where we publish the latest news about the project, presentations at congresses and conferences, or the researchers' field work. And also, we have a section entitled "On-Going Research" where we publish the work of the research team: short films, articles and reflections.
7) Submission of short films to festivals: One type of research output of the project is short or feature-length films. Our intention is to disseminate our research as widely as possible so that it reaches the widest possible public. We want to share knowledge, this is one of the objectives of the project. Therefore, we have sent the short film "The Promised Image" to the following festivals: A) Ethnofest - Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, B) NAFA, C) The Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, D) TRAJECTORIA vol.5 Entry Sheet, E) 32ND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOLOGICAL FILM.
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8) Preparations for the first international conference: As specified in the Grant Agreement, the project will hold three international conferences. The first conference to reflect on "Image-Making" will be held on 12, 13 and 14 June 2023.
During the development of the project, we have realised the importance of developing and analysing in depth the following points: 1) The Importance of AI; 2) The possibilities of AI for research; 3) Visual traceability in religion. Not as important as in social imagery; 4) Scientific imagery shares points with religion, anticipatory imagery; 5) The opacity of images