Aspects of Edgerton, Sunday 22 August, 2pm – FREE
Unit 39-40, The Pallasades Shopping Centre
An Ikon Gallery event with Jonathan Shaw, photographer and Associate Head of Media & Communication, Coventry University and artist Trevor Appleson. The speakers discuss the influence of Edweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton’s photography on their recent work.

Full details of the exhibition can be found here on the Ikon Gallery website.

Refreshments are provided. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

Jonathan has been awarded a Fellowship (FRPS) from the Royal Photographic Society. He received his invitation from the Chairman of the Fellowship Board Dr Michael Hallett in recognition of his contribution to photographic practice.

This is a very exciting opportunity to work with this prestigious society in developing and promoting new opportunities for photographers to support their future.

Jonathan has been invited by Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library and Ikon Gallery to talk about his work and its relationship to the pioneering work of Harold Edgerton. This new show pays reference to their first exhibition of his held in 1976. This was in fact the first European solo exhibition by the pioneering American scientist and photographer Dr Harold E. Edgerton.

I will post some more when I have some further information.

Talk by Jonathan Shaw
Photographing Time
Saturday 3rd April, 2pm, Estorick Collection, London

Jonathan has been invited to talk as part of On the Move exhibition curated by Jonathan Miller at the Estorick Collection. All are welcome, the more the merrier!

Jonathan will be talking about his ideas, work and encounters with the masters of Time and Movement within photography with particular reference to the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton.

Animated sequence of a buffalo (American bison) galloping. Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge, first published in 1887 at Philadelphia (Animal Locomotion). Animation by Waugsberg, 2006-7-16.	Bullet through banana, 1964, photograph by Dr. Harold Edgerton

Jonathan has been invited to give a talk about his practice at Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel. The talk will feature as part of a seminar series on Time and Photography being organised by Dr. Maarten Vanvolsem at the University.

Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design was founded in 1880. It evolved from the Neo-Gothic arts and crafts schools built in the second half of the 19th century by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, an international teaching order founded by John Baptiste de La Salle over 300 years ago.

In recognition for his innovation and influential role in developing business and education models in photography Jonathan has been invited to become a fellow of the RSA.

For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action.

On the Move – Visualising Action
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
13 January – 18 April 2010

Jonathan has been invited to give his personal response to the On the Move exhibition at Estorick Collection. Jonathan’s talk has been scheduled for Saturday 3rd April. On the Move has been curated by Dr Jonathan Miller, this exhibition will explore the representation and perception of movement in arts and science.

It will take the Estorick’s own Futurist masterpieces as its starting point but its scope will also include photography, especially the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and recent scientific research into the analysis of movement.

The Podcasts for the symposium are now available online via the Coventry School of Art & Design, Media & Communication blog covmedia.co.uk or on iTunesU

Or you can use the following direct links for each session;

Sesssion I: Remediating Photographic Time

Session II: Photographic Inventions and Interventions

In association with the touring exhibition Something That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A, Jonathan co-organised a series of talks by leading photographers at The Herbert. The exhibition continues until 11 January 2009.

Herbert Art Gallery, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP

Thursday 13th November, 5.30pm

Dan Holdsworth is one of the most innovative British photographers currently working with landscape. His early series concentrate on the quiet moments in everyday spaces: office buildings after work, car parks at night and deserted motorway flyovers. In more recent years he has traveled internationally, studying the areas where technology and architecture are representative of an accelerated economic world at their most removed and alien. The photographs are silent and iconic, witnesses of our world.

www.danholdsworth.com

Monday 17th November, 5.30pm

Mark Power has published four monographs: The Shipping Forecast, a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports in 1996; Superstructure, a documentation of the construction of London’s Millennium Dome in 2000; The Treasury Project, about the restoration of a nineteenth century historical monument, in 2002: and 26 Different Endings (2007) which looks at those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z (a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital).

www.markpower.co.uk

Monday 1st December, 5.30pm

Chrystel Lebas has exhibited extensively at international level. Her photographs appear in several private and public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Her work is drawn from her interest in looking at how landscapes contain psychological significance in relation to historical events, legends, fairy tales and our childhood memories. Chrystel’s most recent series of photographs from her monograph Between Dog and Wolf, were taken in forests in Germany, Japan, France, Finland and England during the Twilight hours.

www.chrystellebas.com

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