[ecrea] Call for Papers: 21st Century Photography: Art, Philosophy, Technique

> https://photoconference2015.wordpress.com/
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> 21 CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY: ART, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUE

> University  Of the arts London
>  Central Saint Martins

> 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique
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> 5-6 June 2015
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> 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:
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> • 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
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> 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.
>
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