-----Original Message----- From: Dominic McIver Lopes <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 12:33 pm Subject: [AE] Fwd: CFP: 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Begin forwarded message:From: Carrie Giunta <[email protected]> Subject: CFP: 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Date: February 27, 2015 at 10:01:27 PST Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> CALL FOR PAPERS Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique 5-6 June 2015 Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London Granary Building Granary Square Kingbs Cross London N1C 4AA B 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,B 21st century photography: art, philosophy, techniqueB seeks to address the re-birth of photography from a diversity of visual narratives and from the strange roles images get to perform inB the digital moment. Possible themes may include, but not limited to: b" Situating photography within the framework of contemporary philosophy b" The aesthetics of repetition, reproduction and copy b" The political implications of visual practices b" New theoretical models for assessing contemporary image culture b" Duration and temporality of the bstillb image b" Sensorial and bodily experience of photography b"B Photography and the post-human b" Theoretical dimensions of the idea of brepresentationb b" Data, information and algorithms in the visual field b" Archiving and curating the immaterial image b" Augmented reality and immersive visual environments b" Non-visual dimensions of photography Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof.B Claire Colebrook,B B Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University Prof.B Johnny Golding,B Professor of Philosophy and Fine Art, Director of Centre for Fine Art Research, BCU Prof.B John Roberts, Professor of Art and Aesthetics, University of Wolverhampton. To submit a proposal: 500-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations should be sent to Dr Daniel Rubinstein atB [email protected] by 10/03/2015. Selected conference papers will be published in a special issue of the journalB Philosophy of Photography. Tickets to the conference will be available at the end of March.B _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
