[Commlist] CIEF - Call for Proposals: Photography and Site

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES
Photography and Site – Routes, Cartographies and Drifts

Colégio dos Jesuítas, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
December 4-6, 2023

The International Conference of Photography Studies to be held on 4-6 
December 2023 at Colégio dos Jesuítas, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, 
Portugal, invites proposals on Photography and Site – Routes, 
Cartographies and Drifts.

An initiative of Secretaria Regional de Turismo e Cultura and Direção 
Regional da Cultura / Museu de Fotografia da Madeira - Atelier 
Vicente's, with the support of ICNOVA - Instituto de Comunicação da Nova 
/ EVAM Observatory and the University of Madeira / Departamento de Arte 
e Design.

The conference aims to explore the ways in which photography has been 
used to map and represent territories, as well as documenting journeys, 
migrations and movements across landscapes. In addition to designating 
spatially defined territories, the notion of “site” has been associated 
with metaphorical and metonymic meanings, with historical, identity and 
relational dimensions, which replace or, at least, superimpose this more 
essential geographic dimension.

Moreover, this overcoming of a more proper territorial circumscription 
is implicit in studies that relate photographic representation to 
geographic imagination, where photography emerges as a particularly apt 
means of defining spatiality. In this sense, from the digital revolution 
of the 21st century itself, where photography is inscribed as a plural 
practice and hybrid technique, the reconfiguration of this concept and 
others in its proximity, such as: that of lieux de mémoire (Pierre 
Nora), that of non-place (Marc Augé), or heterotopia (Michel Foucault). 
At the same time, we highlight the role of photography in artistic 
practices in different disciplinary areas, which privilege notions such 
as wandering, drifting and chance, namely, through the act of walking, 
either as an object or as a methodology or work process.

The deadline for the present call for proposals is 15th of June 2023. We 
invite proposals for 20-min presentations in Portuguese and English.

We welcome proposals that engage with a range of topics, including but 
not limited to:

  * Site / Landscape: landscape as an autonomous photographic genre that
    asserted itself almost immediately since the beginning of the medium
    in relation to the idea of place; photography's ability to
    represent, emblematize or reify the idea of place, for example, in
    its association with the practice of tourism, in the case of place
    branding and in specific formats such as postcards; the role of
    photography in documenting human intervention in the natural world,
    whether in legitimising certain constructions/ventures or through an
    ecological critique.

  * Art, paths and drifts: authorial processes or practices that refer
    to thoughts on territory through notions of trajectory or
    established path, or, on the contrary, of drift or unpredictable
    wandering, without a charted destination; the mobilising of
    photography in the act of walking.

  * Architecture, Urban photography and the flâneur: uses of photography
    in capturing the modern urban experience of the beginning of the
    20th century or in a postmodern experience of the city; relationship
    between the technique and posture of the flâneur of wandering and
    observing a hectic reality.

  * Regional photographers: routes of Madeiran photographers, or with a
    practice in the Madeiran Archipelago, and approach to their
    trajectories and works; representativeness of their images in their
    relationship with different sites; photographic representation and
    Madeiran identities: insular, atlantic, macaronesian.

  * Digital media and new cartography:  an approach to contemporary
    photography as a technique intertwined with other digital media in
    the visualisation of cartography (point clouds, machine/satellite
    images, drones, road trip photographic tradition, etc.); artistic
    practices that mobilise images generated by surveillance
    technologies, subverting functions and/or expanding potentialities.

  * Photographic mapping of transits and exchanges: projects that,
    similarly to the role attributed to photography by Allan Sekula in
    Fish Story (1988-195) in documenting the economy and distribution of
    goods on a global scale, address that same topic today; exploring
    the tension between visibility and invisibility of means, routes and
    distribution paths on a global scale.

  * Photography and migrations:  the role of photography and other
    technologies in recording the experiences of migrants, refugees and
    people on the move; thinking about the ability of photography to
    witness and document these experiences, in particular, through the
    intersections with sound and moving image.

  * Photography and literature:  relationship between text and image in
    regards to notions of site; the photobook genre as a complement to,
    or rather a disruption of, travelogue conventions; use of
    photography in literature (novel and essay) as a form of framing or
    tension with the notion of (a) place.


Submission guidelines:
– We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations to be submitted 
through EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=photographystudies20 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=photographystudies20>) containing:

a) Title and abstract of 400 words maximum (no references), and 3-5 
keywords;

b) The name of the author with current affiliation, contact details 
(email and mobile) and a short biographical note (around 200 words).

Proposals should be sent no later than 15th of June 2023.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 24th July 2023.

Other details:
Accepted proposals will be validated through registration, but no fees 
shall be applied.
Questions or more informations can be accessed on 
https://confief.netlify.app/ <https://confief.netlify.app/> or be 
directed to (photographyandsiteconference /at/ gmail.com)



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