Photography and Information Technology
University of Lausanne, Quartier Chamberonne, Extranef

PROGRAM

Thursday, 16 November
Extranef, 109

09.15
Introduction
Estelle Blaschke, Olivier Lugon, Davide Nerini

OUTILS / TOOLS
Chair: Estelle Blaschke

09.45
Monika Dommann (Universität Zürich)
Xeroxomania

10.15
Jonathan Dentler (University of Southern California)
Scanning the World: Wire Photography as a Global Information Technology

10.45 Coffee break

11.15
Cornelia Durka (Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig)
Handling images within a logistics of perception: Developments in photo processing laboratories in the 1970s/80s

11.45
Peter Sachs Collopy (California Institute of Technology)
Ampex, Magnetic Recording, and the Continuity of Photographic and Informatic Media

COLLECTIONS
Chair: François Vallotton

14.00
Michael Faciejew (Princeton University)
“By Projection Rather Than Directly”: The Architectural Logic of Microfilm

14.30
Guillaume Blanc (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Rationaliser la documentation photographique et reconquérir la souveraineté culturelle française dans l’Après-Guerre

15.00 Coffee break

15.30
Dominique Versavel (Bibliothèque Nationale)
Histoire et enjeux du traitement des fonds photographiques à la Bibliothèque nationale de France

16.00
Clara Bouveresse (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
L’agence Magnum en ligne: dématérialisation et culte du papier depuis la fin des années 1980

17.15 Jeff Guess (Artist, Paris): Performance Ekphrastic Objects


Friday, 17 November
Extranef, 125

TRAITMENT / PROCESSING
Chair: Thomas David

09.30
Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University)
Ordering Algae: Photography and the Diatom Catalogue

10.00
Nathalie Dietschy (UNIL)
Atlas, archives, inventaires: les livres post-photographiques

10.30 Coffee break

11.00
Nadya Bair (Yale University)
Managing Image Overload at Magnum Photos

11.30
Sabine Süsstrunk (EPFL)
Mining the Flux: Image Classification and Image Retrieval


Doctoral Program in Digital Humanities, UNIL-EPFL
Chair: Olivier Lugon

14.00-15.30

Davide Nerini (UNIL)
Feuilleter, extraire, juxtaposer. Les dynamiques matérielles de l’information photographique

Benoit Seguin (EPFL)
The Replica Project: Navigating Iconographic Collections at Scale

Leonardo Impett (EPFL)
Machine Learning and Digital Photography: the Double Hermeneutic


The conference is jointly organized by:
Department of Film History and Aesthetics, UNIL
Center of History of Culture: Literature, Arts and Society, UNIL
College of Humanities, EPFL
Doctoral Program in Digital Humanities, UNIL-EPFL