[ecrea] cfp DL Helsinki Photomedia 2018

The cfp deadline for Helsinki Photomedia 2018 is approaching, if 
interested in presenting, please send a 500 word abstract by October 31, 
2017. The theme is: "Reconsidering the 'Post-truth Condition': 
Epistemologies of the photographic image." Keynote speakers include 
Robert Hariman (Northwestern University), John Lucaites (Indiana 
University), Barbie Zelizer (Universirty of Pennsylvania) and Walid Raad 
(The Cooper Union, NYC).

Call for Papers
Helsinki Photomedia 2018
March 26 -28, 2018
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Deadline for 500 word abstracts: October 31, 2017

Theme: Reconsidering the “Post-truth Condition”: Epistemologies of the 
photographic image.

Contemporary photography takes place in a world where the relation 
between facts and values is a social and political issue which has 
repercussions in art and education as well. The public discussions on 
information warfare, fake news and manipulated media contents have 
shaken the epistemology of news media and generally revitalized the 
questions of trustfulness of media representations. Problematic 
statements about the ‘post-truth condition’ symptomatically reflect this 
situation and pose new challenges to our understanding of the 
epistemology of the photographic image.

It is vital to reconsider the ‘post-truth condition’ as a discursive and 
imaginary formation. This implies that its claims cannot be taken at 
face value. At the same time, however, as a socially seducing 
phenomenon, it arranges new settings for old questions of photographic 
knowledge, authenticity, veracity and truthfulness. It postulates a 
political and social terrain where photographic images circulate and 
participate in the formation of socially efficient visual knowledge.

Hence, the controversial notion of post-truth actualizes questions of 
the quality of photographic information, knowledge and data. Rich in 
detail, photographs are able to communicate in a constative, laconic 
manner. Photographs are “dense data” and their mute appearances are 
malleable material for various information structures.

Helsinki Photomedia 2018 invites critical examinations, artistic 
reflections and presentations of educational projects of photography 
after the 'post-truth condition’, especially work which addresses the 
variety of ends that photographic truth, authenticity, indexicality, 
manipulation and suspicion have to stand for. Photomedia 2018 will take 
up the multifaceted question concerning the photographic epistemology by 
focusing on topics including (but not limited to):

    Evidence and testimony
    Photography and knowledge
    Technical aspects of photographic data
    Visual information and counter-information
    Strategies of authentication
    Photography and education

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Keynote speakers 2018:

Professor Robert Hariman (Northwestern University)
Professor John Lucaites (Indiana University)
Professor Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania)
Artist Keynote Professor Walid Raad (The Cooper Union, NYC)

Hariman and Lucaites are authors of The Public Image, Photography and 
Civic Spectatorship (2016) and No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, 
Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (2007).

Zelizer's work on photography includes the books About to Die: How News 
Images Move the Public (2010) and Remembering to Forget: Holocaust 
Memory through the Camera's Eye (2000).

Artist keynote speaker Walid Raad is a contemporary media artist who's 
works include The Atlas Group project about the contemporary history of 
Lebanon.

Helsinki Photomedia is a biennial photography research conference 
organized by four Finnish universities since 2012. The conference offers 
various platforms where artistic, philosophical, social, cultural, 
economical and technological approaches to photography meet. We welcome 
submissions from all areas of photography research. Since 2016 
photography education has been one of the areas and we welcome 
submissions for the educational panel for presenting educational 
projects and related research. The conference language is English.

Important dates:

31 October 2017 - Deadline for submissions (500 word abstracts) by 23.59 
Finnish time (UCT +2:00)

1 December 2017 - Notifications of Acceptance

1 March 2018 - Deadline for Registration

26 - 28 March 2018 - Conference in Helsinki

For further information, please see: 
http://helsinkiphotomedia.aalto.fi/ocs/index.php/hpm/index/pages/view/hpm_2018_index


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