Colloquium
À partir d’aujourd’hui… Reconsidering Postphotography
Montreal – 1-3 October 2015
All events are free and open to the public. Registration is strongly recommended.
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We are now fully immersed in the second digital revolution whose instruments are the Internet and the smartphone, whose supports are the web and the personal device. This international conference, À partir d’aujourd’hui… Reconsidering Postphotography has been organized by three long-term institutional partners in photographic studies, Concordia University (CU), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal (MPM), to address the artistic and social impacts of current photographic technology. The scientific committee is composed of Joan Fontcuberta (MPM), Corina Ilea (MPM), Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande (CU), Martha Langford (CU), Julie-Ann Latulippe (UQAM) and Vincent Lavoie (UQAM).
Inspired by curator Joan Fontcuberta’s theme for the 2015 MPM biennial, The Post-Photographic Condition, the partnership’s scientific committee has identified three axes of research. The first is memory, and how the digital revolution shapes the collective identity of youth and the imaginations of artists. The second is historiography, and how ‘thinking photography’ in the digital age causes us to re-examine whole categories of images that photography history has ignored. The third is truth, and how the post-photographic era has impacted on photography as a source of verifiable knowledge. Nine invited scholars will give papers and form panels to discuss these issues. Other issues will be raised in a graduate student session organized by and for doctoral and postdoctoral students.
Three keynote speakers – Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, Department of Photography, New York Museum of Modern Art; Joanna Sassoon, Tutor and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Sciences, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia; and Vanessa Schwartz, Professor of History and Director, Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States – will bridge and complicate the conference themes.
Support for this event has been generously provided by the Aid to Research Related Events (ARRE) program of the Office of Research, CU; the Faculty of Fine Arts, CU; the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, CU; Speaking of Photography, CU; the Australia Council for the Arts; the Canadian Centre for Architecture; Figura, Centre de recherche sur le texte et l’imaginaire, UQAM and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal and.
Schedule
Thursday, 1 October
6 – 8 pm
Canadian Centre for Architecture. In French. Simultaneous translation.
Keynote I
Après la photographie ?
Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, United States.
Friday, 2 October
9 am – 12:30 pm
Concordia University. In English and French.
Perspectives on Postphotography
Moderator: Corina Ilea, Associate Curator, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada.
9 – 10:15 am
Perspectives on Postphotography I : persistance and continuity
Session chair: Samuel Gaudreau-Lalande, doctoral student, Concordia University, Canada.
Revoir les concepts de technologie et de médium
Daniel Fiset, doctoral candidate, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Les images ont chaud ! La fièvre postphotographique au regard du surréalisme
Ji-Yoon Han, doctoral candidate, Université de Montréal, Canada.
The Legacy of the Analogue
Frances Cullen, doctoral candidate, McGill University, Canada.
10:30 am – 12 pm
Perspectives on Postphotography II: appropriation and circulation
Session chair: Julie-Ann Latulippe, doctoral candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Post-Photography, Fluidity and the Ethics of Images
Reilley Bishop-Stall, doctoral candidate, McGill University, Canada.
The Postphotographic Ecology of Environmental Activism
Karla McManus, postdoctoral fellow, Queen’s University, Canada.
La photographie de mode à l’intersection de la pornographie
Virginie Riopel, doctoral student, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
2 – 5 pm
Concordia University. In English and French.
A New Regime of Memory
Session chair: Joan Fontcuberta, guest curator, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada.
The Matter of Memory: Screen Memory, Associative Engines, Algorithmic Systems
Timothy Druckrey, Director of Photographic and Electronic Media graduate program, Maryland Institute College of Art, United States.
Sic transit gloria mundi: les images du printemps érable sont-elles solubles dans l’histoire?
Alexis Desgagnés, art historian, artist, author, and Editorial Assistant, Ciel Variable, Montréal, Canada.
Les ados, les souvenirs et la mémoire à l’ère du numérique
Jocelyn Lachance, Chargé de cours, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France.
6 – 8 pm
Canadian Centre for Architecture. In English. Simultaneous translation.
Keynote II
Photographs for Justice – Justice for Photographs: Evidence, Archives and Reconciliation across the Digital Divide
Joanna Sassoon, Tutor and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Saturday, 3 October
9:30 am – 12 :30 pm
Concordia University. In English and French.
Taking the Long View
Session Chair: Martha Langford, Professor, Department of Art History/Research Chair and Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University, Canada.
New technologies, old stories: Mass photographic worldviews
Annebella Pollen, Senior Lecturer, History of Art and Design, University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
Power Left Lying in the Streets: Arendt, Foucault and the Visual Turn in Political Theory
Sharon Sliwinski, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University; Core Faculty Member, Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism; Affiliate Member, Centre for Transnational Justice and Post-Conflict Resolution, Canada.
The Ecology of Photography: Archive, Infrastructure, Environment
Nina Lager Vestberg, Professor of Visual Culture, Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.
2 – 5 pm
Concordia University. In English and French.
Faith in Photography
Session Chair: Vincent Lavoie, Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
La peur de l’image : les oiseaux de Zeuxis à l’épreuve de la ressemblance
Maxime Coulombe, Professeur agrégé en histoire de l’art contemporain, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
De l’image, jouons. La photographie à l’ère de nos intelligences collectives
Frédéric Lambert, Professeur des Universités et Directeur du Master Recherche Médias, langages et société, Institut français de presse (IFP) Université Paris 2, France.
Image Recall: Can defective media carry the burden of historical proof?
Susan Schuppli, Acting Director & Senior Lecturer, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
6 -8 pm
Canadian Centre for Architecture. In English. Simultaneous translation.
Keynote III
Paparazzi: The Last Professionals in the Postphotographic Age
Vanessa R. Schwartz, Professor of History and Director, Visual Studies Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.
Where
Concordia University
J.A. de Sève Cinema
J.W. McConnell Building (library), LB-125
1400 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec
E-mail: canadianartinstitute@concordia.ca
Telephone: 514-848-2424, ext. 4713
Canadian Centre For Architecture
Paul Desmarais Theatre
1920 Baile Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 2S6.
Website : www.cca.qc.ca
