PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIATIONS

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIATIONS

Coventry School of Art and Design together with Goldsmiths’ Creative
Media Forum invite you to PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIATIONS, a half-day
photography symposium exploring the boundaries of photographic theory
and practice, art and commerce, critique and creativity.

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.

For further details on how to get to Coventry see:
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/maps/Pages/Travelinformation.aspx

For information on how to get to ICE - the venue for the symposium – see
this map:
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/university/maps/Pages/Campusmap.aspx
ICE is number 15 on the map.
Tel: 02476 158300

All enquiries please contact Claire Williams

More on Goldsmiths’ Creative Media Forum:
http://creativemediaforum.blogspot.com/

Director's Cut Series 2 Invite

The Film and Visual Culture Programme at the University of Aberdeen are
pleased to present the first three events of the Director's Cut Series 2
public talks featuring leading and innovative filmmakers and broadcasters.
Visit our website for details and to view webcasts of Series 1 events,
including our last talk with Sir David Attenborough:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut


Hans Petter Moland
Tuesday 14 October, King's College Conference Centre, 6pm

Hans Petter Moland is one of Scandinavia's leading film directors, having
won numerous awards for his six feature films, including the stunning road
movie, Aberdeen (2000). The film features Charlotte Rampling, Lena Headey
and Stellan Skarsgård, the Swedish star of the current hit movie, Mamma Mia
(2008). The two had previously worked together on Moland's film, Zero
Kelvin (1995), set in Greenland. Born in Oslo and having trained in the US,
where he directed music videos, Hans Petter Moland has become known for his
striking cinematography and taut narratives.

Pawel Pawlikowski
Tuesday 18 November, King's College Conference Centre, 6pm

My Summer of Love (2004) and Last Resort (2000) each won awards at the
Edinburgh Film Festival and BAFTAs. They were made by the internationally
renowned director Pawel Pawlikowski. Born in Warsaw, Pawlikowski left at 14
to live in Germany and Italy, before moving to the UK. He studied literature
and philosophy at London and Oxford and then embarked on a series of highly
original documentaries for the BBC. His work includes From Moscow to
Pietushki (1991), Dostoevsky's Travels (1992) and Tripping with Zhirinovsky
(1995). Pawlikowski's hypnotic film, Serbian Epics (1992), was made at the
height of the Bosnian war, and includes scenes shot of Radovan Karadzic and
General Ratko Mladic, who later became sought for war crimes.

Jane Treays
Tuesday 9 December, King's College Conference Centre, 6pm

Winner of the Royal Television Society Award for Best Network Documentary
for Extraordinary Families (2005), Jane Treays is one of the foremost
documentary directors in British television. Of her controversial film, Men
in the Woods (2001), the Mirror wrote: "Acclaimed filmmaker Jane Treays
brilliantly draws on personal experience to tell of the effects of indecent
exposure on children. Jane was brave to make this film and Channel 4 was
bold to screen it". Over 2,400 calls were received following its
broadcast. Of her film One Man, Six Wives and 29 Children (1999) the Daily
Telegraph wrote: "Jane Treays has fashioned yet another excellent film,
giving her subjects time and space, from behind the camera come incendiary
questions".

Admission is free and each event will be followed by a drinks reception
hosted by Scottish Screen. To book your place and to view the webcasts from
the first series, visit http://www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut or contact the
Events Office on Ext. 3874.

Growing harassment of documentary filmmakers in India

15 Sep, Subaltern Cinema

Acclaimed film-makers Rakesh Sharma, Gaurav Jani and Praveen Kumar yesterday (Sept 14) registered their protest with the President of India during the National Film Awards ceremony organised by the Ministry for Information & Broadcasting. Each of them handed over a protest petition to the President as they went up to collect their awards.

The ridiculousness of the situation, in the words of Rakesh Sharma, (whose film was broadcast by BBC Four: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/final-solution.shtml):

"It is ironic that the President of India is recognising the technical and artistic merit of my film Final Solution by giving it an award, while the Government's own Censor Board saw it fit to 'ban' the film."

For more visit: http://tinyurl.com/32qdzx

4th European Conference on Visual Media Production

27-28 November 2007, Savoy Place, London
In recent years the production of visual content has required the development of ever more sophisticated techniques. Special effects in feature films are permanently demanding new techniques and tools which allow the creation of new and more cost-effective programming. In addition industry experts are providing information on how these techniques are applied in real productions. There has also been a critical need to deliver content via different platforms, such as to standard TV, HDTV and online distribution.
In this fast changing environment there is a real need for experts in industry to monitor the progress of these techniques, and for academics to gain a greater understanding of how the techniques are used in industry today.
The 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007) provides you with a forum to examine new developments in the media industry.
Focusing on TV, film, post-production, gaming and new emerging techniques from academia, this two day event offers decision makers, technologists and researchers the latest technology updates, while providing the opportunity to network with peers from industry and academia.
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The Wild Eye: Experimental Film Studies

In order to break what Robert B. Ray defines as the 'path dependency' of contemporary film studies, radically new or reinvented forms of writing are urgently required. In the words of Bela Balazs 'it will be an inspiring theory that will fire the imagination of future seekers for new worlds and creators of new arts'.
Proposals are thus invited for a new edited collection and a one-day symposium intended to promote experimental approaches to the analysis of film. Contributions are particularly welcome from individuals or groups outside of academia. The collection will be unapologetically fragmentary.
Aiming to offer a modern poetics of cinema, the collection seeks to embrace the widest possible range of unconventional techniques. Contributors are therefore invited to cast off the straight-jacket of contemporary film writing by drawing on such investigatory approaches as:
* Psychogeography
* Surrealist techniques (e.g. irrational enlargements)
* 'Cinematic' writing
* Autobiography
* Creative non-fiction
* 'Occult' applications
* Fan writing
Send 250 word proposals for texts of between 1000 - 10,000 words to either: Mark Goodall or I.Q. Hunter
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 29 February 2008
The symposium will be held at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester (UK) in 2008.

Of Aesthetics and Ethics: A Conference on Visual Values

January 10-12, 2008
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Registration: FREE

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Deadline: November 1, 2007

Confirmed Professional Presenters Include:
Jay Maisel: Keynote Speaker and New York City Freelance Photographer
John Filo: CBS, Pulitzer Prize Winner for the Kent State Photograph
John Harte: Photographer, Bakersfield Sun
Janet Kestin: Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto Creator, Dove Anti-Stereotype Advertising Campaign

This conference examines ethical questions regarding the expression of values in visual media presentations. Text and visual submissions are solicited that address topics including, but not limited to: stereotypes, manipulation, privacy, violence, journalistic stage management, infographics, graphic design, fair use, and persuasive visuals.

This is a juried competition. The top faculty submission will be published in the Visual Communication Quarterly. Award will also be given to the best student submission.

Submit One Identified and One Anonymous Version of your Work To:
Deni Elliott, Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies, USFSP,
140 7th Avenue S, FCT 204, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 or Elliott@stpt.usf.edu.

Feast! An interdisciplinary conference on food in text and image

Feast! An interdisciplinary conference on food in text and image to be held by the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, University of Wales, Bangor, 24-25 November 2007. Proposals are welcome for papers which focus on the use of food in both text and image, whether that be in manuscript, book, film or media/new media form. We welcome proposals from all disciplines and have received examples from English, Film and Media Studies, Music, Drama and Performance, Psychology, History and others. Please send titles and abstracts of no more than 500 words by 1st September 2007 to Dr. Samantha Rayner, NIECI, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, UK. Email: s.rayner@bangor.ac.uk.

Future Histories of the Moving Image

An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland 16-18 November 2007 submission deadline:  30 June 2007

Keynote Speakers:  Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), and Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine and Independent Film Parliament, UK)

As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically.  In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online.  This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices.  It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating all areas of our moving image culture.

We would particularly welcome papers that address the following areas:

• What impact does the increasing reliance on database resources have on the nature of the histories we produce and write?


• History as database vs history as narrative.


• Implications of the proliferation of online critical writing (from refereed academic journals through to personal blogs) and its dissemination, with the blurring of the traditional distinction between professional and amateur writer.


• The role and implication of immediate online distribution/exhibition of works


• What impact is digital distribution having on theatrical exhibition?


• Issues arising from the perceived need on the part of major producers/broadcasters to develop content for multiple platforms.


• The implications of multiple producers being able to disseminate a wide range of material to multiple niche audiences (giving the idea of 'narrowcasting' a new meaning).


• Revival/development of found footage production practices with the availability of digital archives such as Library of Congress Internet Archive (including the Prelinger Archive) and BBC Open Archive initiative.


• Questions relating to the increasing accessibility online of moving image material in relation to intellectual property and the development of the Creative Commons copyright licence.


• The creative influence of database logic on film structure.

The conference will also host an open workshop  with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate, the British Film Institute, Marcel Schwierin (Cinovid Database, Germany) and Gaby Wijers (Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts)  which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources.  The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme.

Check out our blog regularly for latest news: myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/futurehistories/

Please send proposals of 200-300 words for papers of approx. 20 minutes, together with a brief biographical note by 30 June 2007 to the conference organisers (Steven Ball, Julia Knight and Stephen Partridge) at futurehistories@sunderland.ac.uk

Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the University of Sunderland, the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.  All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal.

"Photographies", new journal and Call for Papers

Photographies will investigate the contemporary condition and currency of the photographic within local and global contexts. The editors seek research papers and innovative visual essays, shorter papers engaging new debates, review essays evaluating publications, cultural events, key developments, exhibitions and conferences.
Photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for theorising photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture.
Photographies is alert to photography’s changing contexts and meanings, and to the unprecedented scale and diversity of sites of image production, reproduction and consumption now.
Photographies aims to further develop the history and theory of photography, considering new frameworks for thinking and addressing questions arising from the present context of technological, economic, political and cultural change.
Photographies will investigate the contemporary condition and currency of the photographic within local and global contexts. The editors seek research papers and innovative visual essays, shorter papers engaging new debates, review essays evaluating publications, cultural events, key developments, exhibitions and conferences.
The deadline for submissions to the first issue is 15 June 2007.
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Photos for MOnuMENTA's Cover

Do you have the appropriate photograph for the intro page of our second issue?!

MOnuMENTA seeks your participation not only in the process of enriching its columns and exchanging ideas on matters regarding the protection of monuments, but also in the formation of its introduction page!
For above all we wish to establish a direct communication between us.

In view of our second issue, which is dedicated to THE POWER OF WATER, we initiate the choice of the photograph that will illustrate the intro page of each issue among the ones that you will send to us.
Our team will gather the photographs and select the most appropriate one for each issue, while many others will be presented in the column Artistic Views.
The photograph that we search for is the one that, like the articles of our magazine, will raise awareness for each Specific Subject.

THE POWER OF WATER is vital, a stimulus, but also in certain cases disastrous for both nature and man.
Water is life itself, the moving power of many human activities; water is the beauty of the wetlands, the seas, the rivers, the ice, the rain…
It causes floods, remains ungoverned by human interventions, “revenges” whenever man fights it.
Water scarcity results in water famine, the advance of desert land, death.

The photographs must reveal THE POWER OF WATER…

We await for your photographs until 10 July 2007.

P.S One photograph, in colour or black and white, digital or conventional, accompanied by information on what it depicts, when it was taken as well as your brief cv....
If you e-mail it then at fotomonumenta@gmail.com with it size up to1MB,
if you mail it then at MOnuMENTA, El. Venizelou 25-27, 14343, Nea Chalkidona (dimensions 10 Χ 15 cm)

Photography and Labour on the Margins

(3rd Changing Faces Conference)
The third of the Changing Faces conferences will take place in Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovakia), hosted by the House of Photography (WWW.DOMFOTO.SK), from October 4th till 7th 2007.
The main areas of focus for the conference are photography in relation to margins - both geographically and conceptually – and 'Work', the main theme addressed by the 'Changing Faces' project ( WWW.THEIPRN.ORG).
Participants are invited to look into the ways photography has reflected the political and social ´changing faces´ of labour from the 1970s to the present day in what has, at least until very recently, been seen as the "margins" of the developed world and/or the mainstream.
We welcome papers from photographers, photography scholars, visual theorists,
sociologists, historians, curators and archivists that address the following issues:

• How has the changing nature of labour been represented in different social contexts in the centre and at the margins?
  
• What are the different ideologies of labour?
  
• How have diverse iconic images of labour affected national representations of work?
  
• What is the face of labour in the humanist tradition and how has this changed in the post-humanist condition?
  

PLEASE EMAIL EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST BY FRIDAY JUNE 1ST 2007 TO:
LUCIA BENICKA, DOM FOTOGRAFIE: domfoto@domfoto.sk or luciabenicka@gmail.com WITH A COPY TO: info@theiprn.org
Location / Accommodation: More information about conference location can be found at www.liptovskymikulas.sk. The conference will be held at Hotel Druzba: www.pilgrimtours.sk . Registered delegates will receive 10% discount on the hotel accommodation (4 stars rooms: 20-80 Euros pp/per night, 3 stars rooms: 20-30 Euros). For details about travel and accommodation e-mail to Martina Stanova: booking@pilgrimtours.sk

The Glow in their Eyes: Global perspectives on film cultures, film exhibition and cinemagoing

International Conference, Brussels, 15-16 December 2007

The aim of the conference is to review the current state of research in the history of moviegoing and film exhibition and distribution. We seek to bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the globe. The growing number of case studies in local film history increases the need for comparative studies of cities, regions, and nations, while the relationship between micro and macro history(ies) is becoming a major issue for the field. The analysis of patterns and networks in film culture also calls for special attention to methodology. The conference aims to bring European perspectives on cinemagoing and film exhibition into dialogue with British, American and Australian research, and with research elsewhere in the world, in Africa, South America and Asia.

The conference aims to explore and map several crucial tensions arising from the issues of exhibition and cinemagoing, including:

• The attention given to “top down” forces of industry, commerce and ideology as against “bottom up” forces of experience, consumption and escapism;
  
• Contesting concepts of public and private space in media experience;
  
• Questions relating to cinema’s integration into to the metropolitan experience of modernity, compared to its role in the construction of community in less urbanised and rural areas.

In line with the ECREA film studies section philosophy the conference approaches the phenomenon of cinema in a broad, socio-cultural sense: cinema as content, as cultural artefact, as commercial product, as lived experience, as cultural and economic institution, as a symbolic field of cultural production, and as media technology. On a methodological level, the conference is open to multiple approaches to the study of historical and contemporary cinema: film text, context, production, representation and reception. Cultural studies perspectives, historical approaches, political economy, textual analysis, audience research all find their place within this scope.
The conference also signals the completion of two major interuniversity research projects, one in Belgium (‘The Enlightened City. Screen culture between ideology, economics and experience. A study on the social role of film exhibition and film consumption in Flanders (1895-2004) in interaction with modernity and urbanisation’), and one in Australia (‘Regional Markets and Local Audiences: Case Studies in Australian Cinema Consumption, 1927-1980’). These research projects use a combination of oral histories, archival documentation, demographic data and media reportage and personal papers to examine the audience experiences and business practices of cinemas in Belgium and Australia.
The conference is supported by the International Cinema Audiences Research Group (ICARG), and will be the second international gathering of the Group’s work on the HOMER (History of moviegoing, exhibition and reception) Project, following the successful ‘Cinema in Context’ conference held in Amsterdam in April 2006. The conference will be preceded by an ICARG workshop.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Annette Kuhn (University of London)
Richard Maltby (Flinders University)
Possible topics for papers are e.g.:

• Film exhibition, cinemagoing and film experience in relation to theories of imperialism, postcolonialism, etc.
  
• Long term tendencies such as the rise of cinemas in rural and urban environments, the boom of cinemagoing, the decay and subsequent closure of many (provincial and neighbourhood) cinemas and the rise of multiplexes
  
• Tensions between commercial and/or ‘pillarised’ film exhibition, between urban and rural areas, and between provinces and regions
  
• Institutional developments, geographical location and programming trends
  
• Audience and film experiences in urban and rural contexts
  
• A comparative international perspective on cinemagoing and exhibition
  
• Diasporic cinemagoing practices
  
• Representations in films of cinemagoing, film exhibition, film culture(s)
  
• Reflections on methods: How to reconcile/combine large scale analysis vs in depth case study? How to link up national or regional databases on exhibition and cinemagoing?

A selection of papers presented on the conference will be published in an edited volume in 2008 (publisher to be confirmed).

Organizing Committee
Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp Research Group Visual Culture / ECREA film studies section)
Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University Working Group Film and Television Studies)
Stef Franck (Flemish Service for Film Culture (VDFC), the Royal Belgian Film Archive)
Richard Maltby (Flinders University)
Kate Bowles (University of Wollongong)
Deb Verhoeven (RMIT University)
Please submit abstracts (500 words) with short bio to Gert.willems2@ua.ac.be and Liesbeth.vandevijver@ugent.be before 6 July 2007.
Speakers will be notified of acceptance by 31 July 2007.

Research Forum on Arab and Muslim Media

After the success of the first doctoral symposium for researchers on Arab & Muslim media, held at King’s College University of London on the 28th April 2007, CAMMRO members and participants in the symposium unanimously voted in favour of having the doctoral symposium an annual event where researcher in the field gather. The congregation also welcomed the initiative of establishing a discussion forum for researchers interested in the area of Arab media & culture, Muslim media, and Middle Eastern communication and politics.
The discussion forum/e-group is hoped to become a thriving platform of debate and information exchange for MA & PhD students, academics and civil society organizations engaged in the above areas of research. Joining the e-mail list is free. List members can post information about their research activities, conferences, seminars, journals and newly published books.
To subscribe to the list access the following link: http://cammro.com/mailman/listinfo/researchforum_cammro.com
More information about the doctoral symposium on Arab & Muslim media and how to participate in future CAMMRO events can be accessed on www.cammro.com.

Images of War: Media Representations of the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict

This international one day symposium brings together Argentine and British film directors and media critics to discuss representations of the Falklands/Malvinas War. There will be screenings of Argentine and UK films on the day. The symposium will end with readings by Julie Christie and Keith Osborn of war testimonies and poetry.

Saturday 12th May 2007
10.30 am – 18.30 pm
Warwick Arts Centre

Speakers include: Jim Aulich, Guido Indij, John King, Bernard McGuirk, Derek Paget, Graciela Speranza, Lita Stantic, Stuart Urban.
Tickets £7.50; £5.00 (concession), available from the Warwick Arts Centre Box Office
For a full programme of events please contact Sue Dibben, HRC, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.