Event overview
The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies invites you to the launch of The Photo Lab: a new horizontal and collaborative research/practice unit.
The rationale behind The Photo Lab is to showcase the ongoing practice and research in the broadly conceived area of photography and the cognate forms of image-making, that are taking place in our Department – and in the College. It is also to establish further convergences between Theory and Practice, while promoting creative practice as equivalent to more conventional academic scholarship. The Photo Lab’s activities will include organising talks and symposia, developing group publications, organising exhibitions and curating a conversation about photography and image-making in the age of digital media, seeing machines and AI. The name ‘Lab’ plays on the retro connotations of the now almost obsolete institution of ‘the photo lab’, but it also inscribes itself, to some extent playfully, in the genre of ‘research/practice/design labs’ established across universities worldwide.
The group is horizontal, operating on collaborative principles and open to new members, both from within and without the Department. The founding Photo Lab grouping includes Alice Dunseath, Jacob Love, Damian Owen-Board, Daniel Rourke and Joanna Zylinska: so please join us, or just keep dropping in and out if you prefer.
The launch will include three talks:
Alice Dunseath, Lecturer in Animation and Digital Image Making, will present her recent work, ‘You Could Sunbathe in this Storm’ featured as Times Square Midnight Moment in NYC in the summer, and also ‘Project OOO’ emerging out of a collaboration with an architect.
Damian Owen-Board, Lecturer in Photography, will talk about his recent project, ‘After the Trojan Horses’, aimed at queering the space of the institution – whatever that institution might be.
Jacob Love, Lecturer in Photography, will showcase work from his photography and video show ‘Content: Learning About Pleasure’, which explored, via a series of immersive video installations and large-scale photographs shot with a robotic camera, how algorithms are learning about human pleasures.
The presentations will be followed by a conversation about thinking photography – and thinking photographically – through practice, and will be chaired by Professor Joanna Zylinska, author of Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017) and photomedia artist. It will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Dates & times
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1 Nov 2018 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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