[Commlist] 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 /at/ uwl.ac.uk)

and

Dr. Junko Theresa Mikuriya — Senior Lecturer in Photography, University 
of West London

(junkotheresa.mikuriya /at/ uwl.ac.uk)

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