This is the event that Jonathan organised along with Gary Hall, Professor of Media & Performance, Coventry University and Joanna Zylinska, Reader in New Media & Communications, Goldsmiths.

A half-day photography symposium exploring the boundaries of photographic theory and practice, art and commerce, critique and creativity. Organised by Coventry School of Art and Design together with Goldsmiths’ Creative Media Forum.

Date: Thursday 6 November 2008, 1.00pm-6.30pm

Venue: Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Coventry University Enterprises, Parkside, Coventry CV1 2QR

Programme

Event chair: Gary Hall (Coventry University)

Session I: REMEDIATING PHOTOGRAPHIC TIME, 1.00-2.30
* Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths), ‘The virtual life of photography?’
* Jonathan Shaw (Coventry University), ‘Recollections: photography, time and space’
* Sally Miller (University of Brighton), ‘The camera as witness’

Coffee Break 2.30-3.00

Session II: PHOTOGRAPHIC INVENTIONS AND INTERVENTIONS, 3.00-4.30
* Nina Sellars (Monash University), ‘Recording the anatomical: images from Stelarc’s Extra Ear surgery’
* Jonathan Worth (Coventry University) ‘Why can’t I make a portrait of a tree?’
* Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths), ‘Digital futures, or who’s afraid of the amateur photographer?’

Plenary debate: THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 4.30-5.30
Gary Hall (Coventry University), Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths), Paul Smith (Coventry University), Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths) and others…

The event is free and open to all.

All enquiries please contact Claire Williams – email: Claire.Williams@coventry.ac.uk