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European University in St.-Petersburg: ”After Post Photography”

European University in St.-Petersburg:
”After Post Photography” conference 
19.–20.5.2017

Submission deadline: 22.1.2017.

With the third edition of After Post-Photography we will continue to explore how photographic images and realities – whatever they may be – are interconnected. We share the post-photographic critique that these connections are by no means stable as concepts such as indexicality suggest. Yet in particular the practices of using and perceiving photographic images treat the images as if they indeed were imprints, records, representations or models of realities. With the conference After Post-Photography 3 we aim in particular at reconsidering and reflecting how notions such as indexicality and the truth of the photographic image retain their validity and importance even after they were deemed obsolete.

The conference is intended as platform for multidisciplinary research within the domains of visual, cultural, scientific and technical studies, and the approaches to the specific subjects can be of historical, empirical or theoretical nature. The papers could address topics such as, but are not limited to:

  • Reconsidering the history and historiography of photography.
  • History of photography as a history of practices.
  • Applications of photographic processes for producing non-photographic images.
  • Photographic aesthetics for non-photographic images.
  • Applications of photography for memory, remembrance, and reconstruction.
  • Analog features in digital photography.
  • Pre- and post-production in photography and film.
  • Representing temporality by the means of photography and film.

In particular we encourage papers dealing with the mobilisation of photography by way of smart phones, tablets, drones, dash and body cams. We would like to discuss in more detail how the relation between the picture and the depicted change with these tools; we are interested in contributions that shed light upon the practices of how the resulting images are perceived and processed; and we would love to know more about the role and recording of metadata of all sorts inextricably connected to these images.

Please submit your application including a short summary of your paper (250-400 words) in English using the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=app3 no later than 22 January 2017. NB that you should register at Easychair website to be able to submit your application. There is no participation fee.

We consider the possibility of on-line participation. Working languages of the conference are Russian and English. The conference materials are planned for publication.

Organizing committee: Maria Gourieva, Friedrich Tietjen, Natalia Mazur, Daria Panaiotti, Olga Davydova

Conference dates: 19.–20. May 2017.

CFP 2017 Приглашение

CFP / Art of Research 2017

aor_logo2Art of Research VI
Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations

29-30 November 2017 at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland

Over the past two decades, the Art of Research conferences have had a significant role in promoting continuous dialogue and fruitful convergence between art- and design-related research practices. The conferences have contributed to the development of rapidly growing and spreading contemporary discourse on artistic and practice-led research – while acknowledging and engaging in multiple notions of research where diverse modes of creative practice are used as catalysts for enquiry.

The theme of this sixth Art of Research conference addresses the agency of the artist-researcher as a catalyst that challenges established ideas and produces new thinking through artistic and practice-led research. Moving on from early preoccupations within the field about ontological or epistemological foundations, this Art of Research VI Conference poses the questions:

How do artistic research activities act as catalysts in the domain of different praxes? How can ideas and/or practices of catalysis be considered within a particular research processes, or in relation to larger contexts and realms of art, politics and society?

Art of Research VI conference explores the different manifestations, articulations and emergent agencies triggered by artistic means and related methods of theorizing. In the context of artistic research, catalysis is understood as an action that causes reactions and continues to activate critical thinking that provokes further reactions. Therefore, Art of Research VI focuses on the multitude of bodies of artistic and practice-led research and their effects towards producing new knowledge, new experience, new materialities, new theoretical insights, new praxes and poetics.

We invite submissions to the conference that are original proposals on various forms of art that significantly contribute to praxis and research through art and design. As a guide to developing submissions relevant to the conference, we suggest some potential questions. The themes are not categorical nor fixed; rather, we encourage broad contextual thinking and perspectives that relate but are not limited to the following areas:

· How can artistic and practice-led research offer alternative accesses and options for challenging established epistemologies?
· How can artistic and practice-led research trigger revisions and transformations in art and design in relation to present day ethical, societal and environmental challenges, on a diversity of scales?
· How does artistic and practice-led research intervene in the realms outside the art world or academia? How does it relate to activism/artivism?
· How can artistic research enable collisions of different practices, methods and agencies?
· How is thinking at the intersection of poetics, ethics and politics transformed?
· How can the theory-practice interface catalyze new poetics or praxis in relation to a singular artistic research project or in a wider context for any field of art?
· How does the artistic/ practice-led research context challenge the ways the research is written, expressed or performed.

Through these questions, the main aim of the event is to engage in a shared exploration of bold and visionary thinking across different entangling practices. Historically, the Art of Research conference has been widely appreciated as an unconventional and highly-interactive format for discussing, exhibiting and performing different modes of discourse. Art of Research VI will offer an academic framework for discussing catalyses, interventions and transformations in a diversity of art-, craft- and design-related practices.

The Conference is interested in proposals drawing from the full spectrum of artistic and practice-led research today. We encourage submissions from artist-researchers and practice-led researchers representing different art forms e.g. contemporary art, film, photography, scenography, craft, design, media and architecture. The conference themes include a diversity of perspectives that relate to the conceptualization and to the different forms and formats that artistic research can take, as well as to its contribution to critical thinking and groundbreaking change. Other questions that potential contributors see as productively challenging these themes are most welcome.

We invite full papers (5000 words maximum) from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and mature academics. Specifically, we invite contributions that contribute to one of the following categories:

(1) Explorative papers/presentations including works of art

This type of papers must be submitted together with works of art, artifacts, or documentation of artistic processes and must contribute to the understanding of how the visual/audiovisual and the textual are unified in research. Each submission must also include a separate description of the artwork (80 words max.) and visual material such as photographs or video (digital formats only, up to 10MB in total). The submission should also entail explanation of the related equipment required to display this material. Please note that the transportation of the artwork(s) is the author’s responsibility. The exhibition will be curated by the organizers.

(2) Methodological and theoretical papers related to the conference themes

All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate the review process, authors are responsible for removing any identifying information from their submissions that might lead a reviewer to discern their identities or affiliations. The author’s name in self-citations must be replaced with “Author” in in-text citations, reference entries and footnotes. For the paper template and other practical details, see the conference web site at artofresearch2017.aalto.fi. For more information, please contact aor2017@aalto.fi.

This is the sixth in the Art of Research conference series, the first of which took place in Helsinki in 2005. The conference is co-organized at Aalto University by the Department of Design, the Department of Film, Television and Scenography and the Department of Art, in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

KEY DATES
15 January 2017: First call for papers
15 February 2017: Second call for papers
15 March 2017: Third call for papers
15 June 2017: Deadline for full papers
31 August 2017: Notification of acceptances and reviewer feedback

15 September – 20 November 2017: Registration and payment
15 October 2017: Submission of final papers
12 November 2017: Submission for exhibits (with photos & description)
23-28 November 2017: Exhibition Building
29-30 November 2017: Conference

Maarit Mäkelä, Susanna Helke and Harri Laakso (Conference co-chairs)

Doctoral Seminar Day in Photography Thu 19 Jan 2017

 

Welcome to the first session this spring of Doctoral Seminar in Photography.

Torstai 19.1.2017 klo 9:30–16:00:

Pauliina Pasasen teemapäivä valokuvakoulutuksesta

Professori Merja Salo
Arabian kampus
Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki
9. krs, valokuvauksen tilat

9.30 -10.30 Pauliina Pasanen, Oma väitöstutkimus: Oppiminen dokumentaarisissa valokuvaustyöpajoissa. Alustavia nostoja aineistosta viitekirjallisuuden valossa.
10.30-11.00 Teija Löytönen: Näkökulma taidekorkeakoulujen pedagogiikan tutkimukseen.
11.00-11.30 Seppo Kumpulainen(TEAK): Taideyliopisto-opetuksen monet muodot suhteessa yhteiskunnan muutoksiin.
11.30-12.00 Leena Saraste: Dokumentaarisen valokuvan paikka suomalaisessa valokuvakoulutuksessa.

Lounas 12-13

13-13.30 Susanna Helke: Dokumentaari, poliittinen?
13.30-14 Sanni Seppo: Dokumentaarisen valokuvan poliittisuus ja metsän harhakuva.
14-14.30 Kari Kuukka: “Kun kuva alkaa liikkua…” Visuaalista tarinankerrontaa valokuvan ja videon keinoin.
14.30-15.30 Paneelikeskustelu:
“Maailma, välineet ja opiskelijat muuttuu, miksi ja miten opettaa dokumenttivalokuvausta?”
Sanni Seppo, Hanna Weselius, Kari Kuukka, Maria Gallen-Kallela, Simo Karisalo, Hannamari Shakya
15.30-15.40 Seminaarin lopetus

 

Welcome!

Akseli Valmunen The Young Nordic Photographer of The Year 2016

Aalto-yliopiston Median laitoksella valokuvataiteen maisteriohjelmassa opiskeleva Akseli Valmunen on saanut vuoden parhaan nuoren pohjoismaisen valokuvaajan palkinnon eli Fotografiskan palkinnon. Hänen näyttelynsä nähdään Tukholmassa vuonna 2017.

Viime vuonna saman palkinnon voitti myöskin Aalto-yliopiston valokuvataiteen opiskelija Aapo Huhta.

Master Student in Photography Akseli Valmunen from Aalto University’s Department of Media has won the price for The Young Nordic Photographer of The Year 2016. He’s solo exhibition will be seen at Fotografiska in Stockholm during 2017.

Last year the award was given to an Aalto Photography Student as well, Aapo Huhta being the winner.

See more:

Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish)

Fotografiska (English, also in Swedish)

Photograph of Akseli Valmunen: Fotografiska

Stephen Mayes lectures

Welcome to attend two lectures given by Stephen Mayes on Friday, November 25 at Photography premises, 9th floor:

10 am: Building a Professional Photographic Practice in the New Media World

1 pm: Digital Trends and Computational Photography

Stephen Mayes is a free lance writer and curator. He has been Secretary to the International Jury of World Press Photo Foundation from 2004–2012, and CEO at VII Photo agency from 2008–2013. The new MA students of Photography study program read his article The Next Revolution in Photography last spring as part of their application process. Now you have a unique chance to meet him live! The lectures are part of our course On Photography.

The lectures are open to other media and art students as well.

KuvA Research Days 12.-14.12.2016

Welcome to – Tervetuloa – VÄLKOMMEN!
KuvA Research Days 12.-14.12.2016 KuvAn Tutkimuspäivät
KuvAs Forskningsdagar

FULL PROGRAM AND INFORMATION ABOUT ALL SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
https://www.uniarts.fi/kuvan-tutkimuspaivat-2016

Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/714456778719942/

MAANANTAI 12.12.2016 MONDAY
The Images, Rituals and Notions of Life and Death
Host: Petri Kaverma

John Troyer: Spectacular Human Corpses: Looking at Death. Seeing Dead Bodies

Johanna Sumiala: Death in the Media Society – Re-thinking Rituals, Liminality and Immortality

Stacey Pitsillides: Textures of Death: Digital, Physical and Hybrid Things

Maija Butters: Aesthetic experience and ritual as metaphysical meaning-making

Meri Jalonen: The evolution of a package concept through encounters between humans and artefacts

Terhi Utriainen: Closing remarks

TIISTAI 13.12.2016 TUESDAY
Ecologies of Artistic Research
Host: Mika Elo

Tuula Närhinen: Phenomenotechnique in Visual Art Practise. A hands-on approach towards embodied epistemologies

Michael Schwab: Experimental Systems: Contemporaneity, Untimeliness and Artistic Research

Dieter Mersch: Art and Non-propositional Thinking

Miika Luoto: Aesthetic judgement and the exigencies of thinking

Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Studies on the Ecologies of Drama

Annette Arlander: Closing remarks

KESKIVIIKKO 14.12.2016 WEDNESDAY
Particles
Host: Maija Närhinen
Martta Heikkilä: À fleur de peau: Of Blossoming Surfaces in Maija Närhinen’s Work
Saara Hacklin: Rock, Paper, Scissors: Material, representation and perception

Tuomas Nevanlinna: Parts outside the whole

Jouni Kaipia: On Primary Images in Architecture

sekä / and

Poetic Archeology presents: Deutsches Lager – On the Relationship Between Artistic and Archeological Research
Host: Jan Kaila

Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila: Introduction

Jan Fast: The Conflict Archaeology of “Deutsches Lager Hanko”

Suzie Thomas: Archaeologies of Conflict and Dark Heritages: Unpicking the painful past

Ian Alden Russell: The Art of the Past: Before and after Archaeology

Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen: Closing remarks and discussion

Paikka / Location
Exhibition Laboratory
Merimiehenkatu 36, Helsinki

http://www.uniarts.fi/en/exhibition-laboratory

Photography Doctor of Arts Seminar, 27 Oct 2016

Welcome to the Doctor of Arts Seminar for Photography

Thursday 27 October 2016, at 9.00–15.00
Arabia, 9th Floor Photography premises

Schedule:

9-10 Liisa Söderlund: väitöskirjan sisällysluettelon esittely
10-12 Tarja Trygg: Väitöskirjan nykyvaiheen esittely
12-13 lounastauko
13-14 Pia Sivenius: ACRIS-tietokannan esittely. TÄMÄ ON PAKOLLINEN KAIKILLE VALOKUVAN JATKO-OPISKELIJOILLE, SILLÄ RESEDA ON JO SULJETTU JA TIEDOT KOOTAAN TÄSTÄ LÄHTIEN ACRIS-TIETOKANTAAN. YKSITYISOPETUSTA EI ANNETA.
14-15 Acriksen käytön harjoittelua, omien tietojen päivitystä. OMA LÄPPÄRI MUKAAN!

Welcome!

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: ”Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on material visual practices.”

Welcome to the launch of ”Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on material visual practices” co-edited by Edgar Gómez Cruz (DERC, RMIT, Australia) and Asko Lehmuskallio (COMET, University of Tampere, Finland).

26th of October 2016, from 19:00 to 20:00
Location: the Finnish Museum of Photography

The book explores the role that digital photography plays within everyday life. With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a range of academic disciplines – including anthropology, media studies and visual culture – this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective on photography by situating the image-making process in wider discussions on the materiality and visuality of photographic practices and explores these through empirical case studies.

By focusing on material visual practices, the book presents a comprehensive overview of some of the main challenges digital photography is bringing to everyday life. It explores how the digitization of photography has a wide-reaching impact on the use of the medium, as well as on the kinds of images that can be produced and the ways in which camera technology is developed. The exploration goes beyond mere images to think about cameras, mediations and technologies as key elements in the development of visual digital cultures.

Digital Photography and Everyday Life will be of great interest to students and scholars of Photography, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Media Studies, as well as those studying Communication, Cultural Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.

Speakers:

– Edgar Gómez Cruz (Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT Australia)
– Karin Becker (Prof. emerita, Dept of Media Studies, Stockholm University)
– Anssi Männistö (School of Communication, Media and Theatre, University of Tampere)
– Mikko Villi (Dept of Communication, University of Jyväskylä)
– Asko Lehmuskallio (School of Communication, Media and Theatre, University of Tampere)

Programme:

– Welcome (Elina Heikka, Finnish Museum of Photography)
– Short introduction by editors (Edgar Gómez Cruz & Asko Lehmuskallio)
– The book within a practice theoretical paradigm in visual studies (Karin Becker)
– Discussion

INVITATION: BookLaunchPDF.

FACEBOOK EVENT: Here.

Diaphanes symposium: BLIND SPOT, 21 OCT 2016

Diaphanes:
BLIND SPOT SYMPOSIUM
21st October 2016
Exhibition Laboratory
Merimiehenkatu 36, Helsinki

Diaphanes is an interdisciplinary network aimed at connecting researchers from diverse disciplines with an interest in visuality.

The Blind Spot symposium, the first event organised by Diaphanes, serves as a forum for discussing and developing ideas of visual research. The visually inflected title refers to the fact that aims, notions, and questions shared in multidisciplinary research settings often mark decisive differences in approach as well. When addressed well, blind spots of these kinds can, however, function as generators of genuinely new insights with relevance across discipline boundaries.

DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME: BLIND SPOT

CALL FOR PAPERS: Photographies journal: Critical Issues in Photography Today

International Conference – Call for Papers

Photographies journal: Critical Issues in Photography Today

Thursday 18 May & Friday 19 May, 2017
Venue: University of Westminster (Central London), UK

On the occasion of our tenth anniversary, photographies journal is holding a conference aiming to bring together thinkers and photographers in discussion on photography today. We invite papers to revisit our original agenda in the light of photography now:

photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for theorising photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture. photographies aims to further develop the history and theory of photography, considering new frameworks for thinking and addressing questions arising from the present context of technological, economic, political and cultural change.

We further invite you to make submissions that address:

  •   photography as a heterogeneous ‘medium’
  •   new frameworks for thinking photographic practices and industries of photography,
  •   examine contemporary uses and currencies of the photographic image within local/global contexts
  •   identify and developing (emergent) critical debates and practices
  •   reflect on critical theoretical issues in relation to photography education.

 

Each day will include discussions by members of the journal’s advisory board.

Conference Conveners:
Professor David Bate, University of Westminster
Professor Liz Wells, Plymouth University

Conference Administration
University of Westminster & Plymouth University

Papers

The call for 20-30 minute papers is now open.
We encourage photo researchers to submit a practice and/or research based abstract of no more than 350 words that relate to:

  •   New debates and developments in photographytheory;
  •   Speculative ideas and currencies in photography;
  •   Geographies of representation: borders, space, place and migration, movement, dislocation, memory;
  •   The legacy of photography theories (e.g. poststructuralism, Marxist theories) for photography writing and practice;
  •   The politics of representation as related to the fluidities of image circulation;
  •   Theory, criticism and photography education;
  •   Ways of teaching photography from global and contemporary perspectives;
  •   The rapid growth of photography books, journals, magazines, blogs and social media based criticism and practices

Practice-led creative-critical papers and innovative (2/3person) panelproposals are welcome.

Proposals should be sent to elizabeth.chapman-lane@plymouth.ac.uk
Deadline: 14th November 2016

All proposals will be peer reviewed.
We aim to let you know by mid-January whether your paper or presentation has been accepted. Proposals should include the following:

Title of paper or presentation Abstract (max 350 words)
Visual material (if practice-led – max 12 jpegs)
Your name
Institutional status (if applicable) and 20 word bio
Contact address and email

Full details of further deadlines, conference fees, speakers and associated events will be posted on: www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpho20#.V5nVlv72amQ

Please submit proposals to elizabeth.chapman-lane@plymouth.ac.uk, Plymouth University

DOWNLOAD: Call for Papers-photographies.