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
Talks by leading photographers at The Herbert Art Gallery
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