[Commlist] Light | Sensitive | Material International Photography Conference at the University of West London

Light | Sensitive | Material

International Photography Conference

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University 
of West London

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


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.

The conference is convened by Professor Michelle Henning (University of 
Liverpool) and Dr Junko Theresa Mikuriya (University of West London).


Venue: University of West London

Date and Time: 1st and 2nd of November, 9:30 am - 6 pm

Conference Fee: £20 for 2 days including refreshments and drinks reception.

For more information about the conference, please see: 
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-material

Email Contact: (junkotheresa.mikuriya /at/ uwl.ac.uk); 
(michelle.henning /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)

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