[ecrea] Call for papers: Photography at the 21st Century @ Central Saint Martins

CALL FOR PAPERS

21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique

5-6 June 2015

Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts London
Granary Building
Granary Square
King’s Cross
London
N1C 4AA


This trans-disciplinary conference aims to explore a series of themes 
that emerge from the understanding of contemporary photography as the 
basic unit of visual communication of the age of technology: online, 
off-line and between the lines.

The aim is to bridge the gap between aesthetic, philosophical and 
technological approaches to the photographic image and to prompt 
participants from different backgrounds (fine art, critical theory, 
philosophy, software/hardware) to engage with each other and to open new 
avenues for the critical interrogation of the roles of images in 
contemporary culture.

In the past decade, photography has gained momentum in public and 
private environments becoming one of the determining factors of 
contemporary life. The hyper-growth in various forms of digital imagery 
for screens provides a quintessential example. The triumph of the 
photographic image as the internally eloquent and profoundly apt 
expression of computational culture also provides a new philosophical 
lens upon which to investigate how representation affects norms of 
meaning-creation, and the ethical and political consequences of the 
acceptance of images as purveyors of truth.

In light of such dynamics, 21st century photography: art, philosophy, 
technique seeks to address the re-birth of photography from a diversity 
of visual narratives and from the strange roles images get to perform in 
the digital moment.

Possible themes may include, but not limited to:

• Situating photography within the framework of contemporary philosophy
• The aesthetics of repetition, reproduction and copy
• The political implications of visual practices
• New theoretical models for assessing contemporary image culture
• Duration and temporality of the ‘still’ image
• Sensorial and bodily experience of photography
• Photography and the post-human
• Theoretical dimensions of the idea of ‘representation’
• Data, information and algorithms in the visual field
• Archiving and curating the immaterial image
• Augmented reality and immersive visual environments
• Non-visual dimensions of photography

Confirmed keynote speakers:

    * Prof. Claire Colebrook,  Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English 
at Pennsylvania State University
    * Prof. Johnny Golding, Professor of Philosophy and Fine Art, 
Director of Centre for Fine Art Research, BCU
    * Prof. John Roberts, Professor of Art and Aesthetics, University 
of Wolverhampton.

To submit a proposal:

500-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations should be sent to Dr 
Daniel Rubinstein at (photoconference /at/ csm.arts.ac.uk) by 10/03/2015.

Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of the 
journal Philosophy of Photography.

Tickets to the conference will be available at the end of March.


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