Light | Sensitive | Material conference schedule

Light | Sensitive | Material Friday 1 November 2019 9.30 - 10.00 Registration (Coffee and tea available) 10.00 - 10.15 Opening and Welcome (Michelle Henning and Theresa Mikuriya) 10.15 - 11.15 Session 1 Atmospheres of Photography and Film Liz Watkins The Spectacle of Nothing in a Photographic Ecosystem of Antarctica Victor dos Reis Smoke, Steam and Lava: the Uncertain Landscapes of Francisco Afonso Chaves (1857- 1926) Stephen Turner & ‘Strange Radiance’: the Being-in-Relation of the Photographic Index Susanna Collinson 11.15 - 11.35 Discussion 11.35 - 11.50 Comfort break 11.50 - 12.40 Keynote Lecture (chair Michelle Henning) Professor Laura U. Marks A Radical Indexicality: Cultivating Cosmic Perception 12.40 - 13.00 Discussion 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break (lunch is provided for speakers only) 14.00 - 15.00 Session 2 Histories, Process and Mediation Joel McKim Oscillons and Cathode Rays: Photographic Hybrids in Early Computer Art Pierre Pernuit Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux Junior and the Reflective Media Kim Knowles Politics of Process: Gestures of Material Understanding in Contemporary Film Practice 15.00 - 15.20 Discussion 15.20 - 15.50 Coffee/Tea 15.50 - 16.50 Session 3 Operational Images (chair Garin Dowd) Tonje Sorenson Above Flanders Fields: Aerial Photography, Vertical Mediation and Trench Warfare in World War I Jussi Parikka Operational Images: Contemporary Arts to Historical Method Abelardo Gil-Fournier The Vegetal Calculated Image 16.50 - 17.10 Discussion 17.10 - 17.20 Comfort break 17.20 - 18.00 Session 4 Figuring Presence, Evoking Pasts (chair Matilde Nardelli) Lucy Mensah Taken to Scale: Black Female Spectrality, Architectural Photography and Institutional Critique in Carrie Mae Weems’ Museum Series Lara Thompson Past-Light: Photo-filmic History as (En)lightened Cinematic Fetish 18.00 - 18.15 Discussion 18.15 - 19.15 Wine Reception Saturday 2 November 2019 [Coffee available from 9:30 am] 10.00 - 10.05 Welcome 10.05 - 11.05 Session 5 Rethinking the Photographic Image (chair James Burton) Daniel Rubinstein Photography after Philosophy Ohad Zehavi Julio Cortázar's Las babas del diablo: Towards a Non-Photographic Non-Philosophy of Photography Tomas Dvorak Photography’s Eccentric Metrics 11.05 - 11.25 Discussion 11.25 - 11.35 Comfort break 11.35 - 12.25 Keynote Lecture (chair Theresa Mikuriya) Professor Howard Caygill The Photography of Plants 12.25 - 12.45 Discussion 12.45 - 13.45 Lunch Break 13.45 - 14.45 Session 6 Time and Light (chair Theresa Mikuriya) Niharika Dinkar ‘Our best machines are made of sunlight’: Photography and Technologies of Light Peter Bennett Latent Images and the Solidity of Memory Elizabeth Howie If a Tree Falls in the Forest: Wood Pulp Paper and Photographs of Trees 14.45 - 15.05 Discussion 15.05 - 15.35 Coffee break 15.35 - 16.15 Session 7 Everyday Photoplay (chair Shela Sheikh) Paul Frosh Relocating Photography: The Screenshot as Cultural Memory Peter Buse Ludic Photography 16.15 - 16.30 Discussion 16.30 - 17.00 Plenary discussion (chair Peter Buse)