The term 'post -photography' seems to imply rejection of what photography is or used to mean. Digital technology, by offering a potentially limitless scope for manipulating images, questions the very possibility for the world to be truthfully represented by technical means. The post-photographic turn profoundly affected the study of photography, its history and theory. It has proven that the equation between the camera and the eye is mainly a metaphorical one; that the discussion of photography can not be be limited to the image itself; and that this discussion can not be limited to the field of photography as an art.

Despite this, much of the photographic practice continues to rely upon what post-photographic thinking has discredited, and even artistic applications of post-photography remain dependent on those paradigms by negating them. Thus the second edition of the After Post-Photography conference proposes to consider whether notions such as indexicality and truth/evidential value of the photographic image can retain their validity and importance even after they were pronounced obsolete. The conference will discuss this question with a specific focus to practices that emerged with with the rise of the social media and the plethora of applications for taking, processing, distributing, and looking at photodigital images.

Organizing committee: Maria Gourieva (St.Petersburg State Institute for Culture), Friedrich Tietjen (University of Vienna)


PROGRAM

14.04.16

12.00 Registrations and coffee
13.00 Introduction and welcome speeches


Panel 1: Practices

13.30
Jana Johanna Haeckel, Catholic University of Louvain/Lieven Gevaert Centre:
Drone-art as critical counter-narrative of contemporary visual culture

14.00
LiLi Johnson, Yale University:
Selfie photography, birth parent searches, and an epistemology of the self

14.30
Linda Steer, Brock University, Canada:
Photography, crisis, empathy

15.00 Discussion

15.30 Coffee break

16.00
Lioudmila Voropai, IIRFR Berlin:
'Post-post-photography' in the 'Post-digital culture': Analysing a present-day social use of photografy

16.30
Maria Romakina, Moscow State University:
Contemporary photographic self portrait. In search of the Other

17.00
Jean Marie Carey, University of Otago, New Zealand:
The return of indexicality: archival photographs of Franz Marc and Russi Marc

17.30
Asko Lehmuskallio, University of Tampere:
The visualization of digital photos as heuristic pictures

18.00 Discussion


Panel 2: History

13.30
Victoria Musvik, European Humanities University, Vilnius:
Imagined archive, real archive in contemporary Russian photography: reflexion, association, projection

14.00
Carolin Görgen, University of Paris VII Denis Diderot:
Local amateurs seeking national legitimacy: the California Camera Club around 1900

14.30
Olga Khoroshilova, St.Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design:
"A queer wedding". The photos of a male wedding party in the context of everyday culture of soviet Petrograd gay&travesty society

15.00 Discussion

15.30 Coffee break

16.00
Simon Baier, University of Basel:
Cut, fold, rotation. El Lissitzky's Pressa-Leporello, 1928

16.30
Daria Panaiotti, independent researcher, St.Petersburg:
Discipline of the photographic gaze: normative poetics of Soviet documentary photography

17.30 Discussion


15.04.16

Panel 3: Aesthetics and Art

10.00
Sebastian Egenhofer, University of Vienna:
Real presence of/in photography. Notes to Jeff Wall's Picture for Women

10.30
Vera Tollmann: From «Powers of Ten» to powers of 4

11.00 Discussion

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Franziska Kunze, Humboldt University Berlin:
Back to the future. The contradictory path of analogue features being translated into the digital language

12.30
Nina Sosna, Institute of Philosophy at Russian Academy of Sciences:
Multiplying layers: photography in slow video

13.00 Discussion

13.30 Lunch break


Panel 4: Materialities

10.00
Merle Radtke, Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg:
Performing the material … when photographs already exist

10.30
Magdalena Wróblewska, University of Warsaw:
Beyond representation: photography as thing

11.00 Discussion

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Oliver Klimpel, Berlin:
Smeared corners – the current photo-graphic Image

12.30
Olga Davydova, St.Petersburg State University:
Materiality of photographic image: distressed negatives and authenticity

13.00 Discussion

13.30 Lunch break


Panel 5: Theory 1

14.30
Harriet Riches, Kingston University London:
Mother – Matrix – Matter

15.00
Andrei Khoroshilov, St.-Petersburg State University:
The social construction of photography

15.30
Denis Skopin, St.-Petersburg State University:
Critique of the «psychoanalytical vulgate» in Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida

16.00 Discussion

16.30 Coffee break

17.00
Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississipi:
Interrogating photography's indexical 'Identity Crisis' in the post-post digital age

17.30
Daniel Buehler, German Research Foundation / Braunschweig University of Art:
Post-documentary cell phone images. New aesthetics and long-standing notions of truthful representation

18.00 Discussion


Panel 6: Theory 2

14.30
Nigina Sharopova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow:
How is documentality of photography possible? From mimesis to exemplification and vestigium

15.00
Dr James Hellings, University of Reading:
(Magic) making: The invisible visible

15.30
Viktor Krutkin, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk:
Photography: drawing made with light in shadow of social network

16.00 Discussion

16.30 Coffee break

17.00
Oxana Gavrishina, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow:
Subway photographs as a perspective

17.30
Maria Grazia Cantoni, Istituto Petrini Lucca:
The simulated Body. A new perspective on perceiving the Other as the Self

18.00 Discussion


16.04.16

Panel 7: Science

10.00
M. Michaela Hampf, Free University of Berlin:
Eugenic photography: evidence, excess and archives

10.30
Anna Kotomina, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow:
Infografics and photography from Helmholtz to Manovich. A hundred years competition for trust of the audience

11.00 Discussion

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Yanai Toister, University of Sydney:
Photography beyond Photographs

13.00 Discussion


Panel 8: Politics & Journalism

10.00
Mikhail Sidlin, Alexander Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia:
Imperialists, spies and foreign journalists: visual methods of creating an image of enemy in Ogonyok Magazine, 1957

10.30
Kevin Biderman, Royal College of Art, London:
Visual surveillance in the city of London (1994–present day): Discipline, control and the materiality of digital visual media

11.00 Discussion

11.30 Coffee break

12.00
Wing Ki Lee, Hong Kong Baptist University:
Xi Jinping at the "Occupy" Sites: Derivative works and participatory propaganda from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (2014)

12.30 Discussion