Conference 24th - 26th June 2011
Photography, Film and Digital Imaging
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
Conference Programme
Friday 24 June 2011
Culture Lab
Newcastle University
Grand Assembly Rooms, King's Walk, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
16:30 Registration
17:00 Welcome and Introduction
17:30 Keynote speech
Martin Lister, Emeritus Professor of Visual Culture, UWE (UK)
“Photography, Technology, Ecology”
18:30 Wine Reception
Saturday 25 June 2011
The David Puttnam Media Centre
University of Sunderland
Sir Tom Cowie Campus, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD
9:30 Registration
10:00 Keynote speech
David Bate, Reader in Photography, University of Westminster (UK)
“The Emancipating Machine”
11:00 Tea Break
11:30 Panels A & B
Panel A
1. Daniel Palmer, Senior Lecturer in Art Theory, Monash University (Australia)
“The Rhetoric of the JPEG”
2. Paolo Magagnoli, PhD candidate in History of Art, UCL (UK)
“Digital Compression/Postmodern Melancholia: The Art of Sean Snyder”
3. Rachel Wells, Lecturer in Art History ,Lecturer in Art History, Newcastle University (UK)
Digital Scale: Enlargement and Intelligibility in Thomas Ruff’s jpeg series
Panel B
1. Rob Wilkie, Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (USA)
“The ‘Posthuman’ Eye: Class, Ethics, and the Digital Image”
2. Damian Sutton, Reader in Photography, Middlesex University (UK)
“Contact”
3. Nicholas Muellner, Associate Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts,
Park School of Communications, Ithaca College (USA)
“The New Interval”
13:00 Lunch and tea
14:30 Panels C & D
Panel C
1. David Jackson, Lecturer in Media Arts, University of Bedfordshire (UK)
“We are Here: Camilo Josè, Vergara’s Invisible Cities”
2. Arabella Plouviez, Professor in Photography and
Carol McKay, Senior Lecturer in Photography/Photographic Theory,
Faculty of Art, Design andMedia, University of Sunderland (UK)
“Photography, Walking and Social Networking: Reflecting on Critical Photographic Practice”
3. Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, artists and founders of AhmettSalina Studio (Indonesia)
“Don't ever Take Life Seriously. Nobody Gets out Alive Anyway (Urban Play)”
Panel D
1. Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication,
Stockholm University (Sweden) and
Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism, Media School, Bournemouth University (UK)
“Redefining Photojournalism: Citizen Photography and Conflict Events”
2. Yasmin Ibrahim, Reader in International Business and Communications, Queen Mary (UK)
“Bearing Witness in the Digital Age Mediated Suffering in a Converged World”
3. Marta Zarzycka, Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender studies, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
“Digital Processing: Loss and Mourning in Press Photography”
16:00-:16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Keynote speech
Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art (UK)
“The Afterlife of Abu Ghraib”
17:30-18:30 Discussion chaired by David Campbell, photography consultant, writer and multimedia producer,
and member of the Centre for Advanced Photography Studies, Durham University
19:00 Conference Dinner
Sunday 26 June 2011
The David Puttnam Media Centre
University of Sunderland
Sir Tom Cowie Campus, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD
9:30 Registration
10:00 Keynote speech
Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA)
“Phoning It In”
11:00 Tea Break
11:30 Panels E & F
Panel E
1. Mikko Villi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Communication, Aalto University (Finland)
“Messaging and Publishing Photographs: Sharing Camera Phone Photographs via the Internet”
2. Eve Forrest, PhD candidate, CRMCS, University of Sunderland (UK)
“Beyond the Image: A Phenomenology of Digital Photographic Practices”
Panel F
1. Bronwen Colquhoun, PhD candidate and
Areti Galani, Lecturer, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University (UK)
“Flickr The Commons: Challenging Perceptions of Photographic Collections?”
2. Janda Gooding, Head of Photographs, Film, Sound and Multimedia, Australian War Memorial (Australia)
“Physical to Virtual: The Life Story of a Collection of Photographs”
3. Vikki Hill, PhD candidate, University of the West of England (UK)
“Viewing the Past through Web 2.0 Technologies”
13:00 Conference ends