CONF 01.10.2019

Light | Sensitive | Material - Photography Conference (London, 1-2 Nov 19)

London, University of West London, 01.–02.11.2019
Anmeldeschluss: 31.10.2019

Junko Theresa Mikuriya

Light | Sensitive | Material
International Photography Conference

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of West London

Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Howard Caygill, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London
- Prof. Laura U. Marks, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

The fields of photography theory and history have in recent years moved away from the assumption of a break between the analogue and digital image to a more nuanced understanding of both past and contemporary photographic practices, images, and technologies. Increasingly photography is discussed in relation to other media, to industry and markets and to climate and the environment. At the same time questions of aesthetics and interpretation are recast and understood in terms of sensual, haptic, embodied and everyday encounters with material images. This conference will examine photography as simultaneously material and immaterial, addressing not only the tangible properties of photographic objects, but also the ecosystems in which they circulate. We live in and through the photographic, in its physical presence in the world, and in our thought. The conference thus also invites considerations of the ways in which a mode of philosophical thinking can be conceived as photographic or vice versa.

The conference is convened by Professor Michelle Henning (University of Liverpool) and Dr Junko Theresa Mikuriya (University of West London).

Venue: University of West London
Date and Time: 1st and 2nd of November, 9:30 am - 6 pm
Conference Fee: £20 for 2 days including refreshments and drinks reception.

For more information about the conference and to book a place, please see: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-material

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY 1 November 2019
9:30 - 10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00 - 10.15 Opening and Welcome (Michelle Henning and Theresa Mikuriya)

10.15 - 11.35 Session 1 Atmospheres of Photography and Film
Liz Watkins - The Spectacle of Nothing in a Photographic Ecosystem of Antarctica
Victor dos Reis - Smoke, Steam and Lava: the Uncertain Landscapes of Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857- 1926)
Stephen Turner & Susanna Collinson - ‘Strange Radiance’: the Being-in-Relation of the Photographic Index
11.35 - 11.50 Comfort break
11.50 - 13.00 Keynote Lecture (chair Michelle Henning)
Professor Laura U. Marks (title tbc)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break (lunch is provided for speakers only)

14.00 - 15.20 Session 2 Histories, Process and Mediation
Joel McKim - Oscillons and Cathode Rays: Photographic Hybrids in Early Computer Art
Pierre Pernuit - Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux Junior and the Reflective Media
Kim Knowles - Politics of Process: Gestures of Material Understanding in Contemporary Film Practice
15.20 - 15.50 Coffee/Tea

15.50 - 17.10 Session 3 Operational Images (chair Garin Dowd)
Tonje Sorenson - Above Flanders Fields: Aerial Photography, Vertical Mediation and Trench Warfare in World War I
Jussi Parikka - Operational Images: Contemporary Arts to Historical Method
Abelardo Gil-Fournier - The Vegetal Calculated Image
17.10 - 17.20 Comfort break

17.20 - 18.15 Session 4 Figuring Presence, Evoking Pasts (chair Matilde Nardelli)
Lucy Mensah - Taken to Scale: Black Female Spectrality, Architectural Photography and Institutional Critique in Carrie Mae Weems’ Museum Series
Lara Thompson - Past-Light: Photo-filmic History as (En)lightened Cinematic Fetish
18.15 - 19.15 Wine Reception

SATURDAY 2 November 2019
[Coffee available from 9:30 am]
10.00 - 10.05 Welcome

10.05 - 11.25 Session 5 Rethinking the Photographic Image (chair James Burton)
Daniel Rubinstein - Photography after Philosophy
Ohad Zehavi - Julio Cortázar's Las babas del diablo: Towards a Non-Photographic Non-Philosophy of Photography
Tomas Dvorak - Photography’s Eccentric Metrics
11.25 - 11.35 Comfort break
11.35 - 12.45 Keynote Lecture (chair Theresa Mikuriya)
Professor Howard Caygill (title tbc)
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch Break

13.45 - 15.05 Session 6 Time and Light (chair Theresa Mikuriya)
Niharika Dinkar - ‘Our best machines are made of sunlight’: Photography and Technologies of Light
Peter Bennett - Latent Images and the Solidity of Memory
Elizabeth Howie - If a Tree Falls in the Forest: Wood Pulp Paper and Photographs of Trees
15.05 - 15.35 Coffee break

15.35 - 16.30 Session 7 Everyday Photoplay (chair Shela Sheikh)
Paul Frosh - Relocating Photography: The Screenshot as Cultural Memory
Peter Buse - Ludic Photography
16.30 - 17.00 Plenary discussion (chair Peter Buse)

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Light | Sensitive | Material - Photography Conference (London, 1-2 Nov 19). In: ArtHist.net, 01.10.2019. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/21558>.

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