Conferences & lectures

Reconsidering Postphotography

Date & time

Thursday, October 1, 2015 –
Saturday, October 3, 2015 (all day)

Cost

Free

Contact

Canadian Art Institute
514-848-2424 ext. 4713

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
De Seve Cinema

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Version francaise.

See full event schedule below.

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.

Inspired by curator Joan Fontcuberta's theme for the 2015 MPM biennale, 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, Chief Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Joanna Sassoon, Australian archivist and photographic historian; and Vanessa Schwartz, professor of history, visual culture, and film at the University of Southern California – will bridge and complicate the conference themes.

All events are free and open to the public. Registration is strongly recommended.
Register online.

Support for this event has been generously provided by the Aid to Research Related Events (ARRE) program of the Office of Research, Concordia University; the Australia Council for the Arts; the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University; Figura, Centre de recherche sur le texte et l'imaginaire, UQAM; the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University; Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal and Speaking of Photography, Concordia University.

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 1 October

6 - 8 p.m.: Keynote I
Après la photographie ?

Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, United States.

Canadian Centre for Architecture. In French. Simultaneous translation.

Friday, 2 October

9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Perspectives on Postphotography

Moderator: Corina Ilea, Associate Curator, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada.

Concordia University. In English and French.

9 - 10:15 a.m.
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)

Concordia University. In English and French.

10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Perspectives on Postphotography II: appropriation and circulation

Session chair: Julie-Ann Latulippe, doctoral candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

The Fluidity of Photographs in Contemporary Indigenous Art (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)

Concordia University. In English and French.

2 - 5 p.m.
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, Baltimore, 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)

Concordia University. In English and French.

6 - 8 p.m.: 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, Perth, Australia.

Canadian Centre for Architecture. In English. Simultaneous translation.

Saturday, 3 October

9:30 a.m. - 12 :30 p.m.
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)

Concordia University. In English and French.

2 - 5 p.m.
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)

Concordia University. In English and French.

6 - 8 p.m.: 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.

Canadian Centre for Architecture. In English. Simultaneous translation.