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Call for Papers: light | sensitive | material – Photography conference UWL Call for Papers light | sensitive | material Photography conference 2019
A two-day conference at the University of West London supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 1st and 2nd November 2019
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
CALL FOR PAPERS 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.
We welcome abstracts from colleagues in film or cinema studies working on the physical and chemical aspects of film (celluloid and light for example) and questions of aesthetic / sensual experience; and from colleagues in media, literature, history and philosophy whose work addresses the photographic in its various manifestations and forms. Artists whose work engages with the conference themes are welcome to submit a proposal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Ecologies of photography: atmospherics (clouds, fogging, aerialism, climate), energetics Photography and the ineffable: material/immaterial, apparitions, image/imagination Science and technology: maintenance, glitches, wet and dry photography, chemistry, apparatus Visibility and illumination: enlightenment and luminescence, flash, phosphorescence Transience: ephemerality, obsolescence, wear and tear Materiality: from celluloid to coltan, gelatine and silver, tactility, gesture, embodiment and thingliness Abstract Submission: Please send abstracts (300 words max.) with your name, title, affiliation (where appropriate) and a short bio (up to 200 words).
Please prepare for a 20 minute presentation by 5th of June 2019 to the conference organizers: Dr. Michelle Henning — Professor of Photography and Cultural History,
University of West London
michelle.henning@uwl.ac.uk
and
Dr. Junko Theresa Mikuriya — Senior Lecturer in Photography, University
of West London
junkotheresa.mikuriya@uwl.ac.uk
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