Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University/ 4th & 5th July 2016
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
This conference, and related exhibition, will explore the ways in which photographic images address notions of a Northern landscape. We aim to further our understanding of current image making from across northern Europe, the Nordic regions, the Arctic and Canada through bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss a wide range of lens based practices and critical approaches, from both contemporary and historical perspectives.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Liz Wells, Professor in Photographic Culture School of Art and Media (Faculty of Arts & Humanities) Plymouth University and visiting professor, Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster ‘Nordic light, lands and landscape: Photographic Modes of Investigation’
Simon Roberts, award winning photographer; visiting lecturer on the European Master of Fine Art course at IED Madrid at and an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Nottingham On photographic work made in Russia during 2004/5 – published and exhibited as ‘Motherland’ and ‘Polyarnye Nochi (Polar Nights)’
THEMES
THE ARCTIC NORTH: AT THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION THE NORTHERN LANDSCAPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AN EXPANDED FIELD
SCOTLAND: LANDSCAPES OF LIVED EXPERIENCE NORTHERN ENGLAND: BETWEEN GENRE AND INDETERMINACY THE SUBLIME: UNSTABLE AND CONTESTED THE NORTHERN LANDSCAPE: CONCEIVED, ENCOUNTERED, IMAGINED THE ANIMATED LANDSCAPE
ASSOCIATED EXHIBITION IN THE SIA GALLERY (4 –31 JULY)
Full two day conference – £60; Day tickets – £30; Students – £20 for full conference, £10 for one day; Senior Citizens – £20 for full conference, £10 for one day; Unwaged rate – £10 for the full conference
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