As part of the World Biennale of Student Photography
We are proud to announce the First International Symposium:
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A METHOD OF VISUAL RESEARCH
Symposium of the World Biennale of Student Photography
December 21, 2017
Multimedia Centre, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, SerbiaOrganising Committee:
- Prof. Dr Dubravka Lazić, Department of Photography, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
- Prof. Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin, Head of Department of Photography, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
Editor in chief:
- Prof. Dr Dijana Metlić, Department of Art Theory, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
Editorial Board:
- Prof. Dr Dubravka Lazić, Department of Photography, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
- Prof. Jelena Kovačević Vorgučin, Head of Department of Photography, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
- Prof. Ivana Tomanović, Department of Photography, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
- Mia Ćuk, Teaching Assistant, Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad
As part of the Biennale of Student Photography, this International Symposium aims to initiate a discussion on photography as a method of visual research. Focusing on contemporary photography and its obvious connections with other arts and media, as well as with the advent of digital technologies, it has become indisputable that photography is inherently intermedial. This symposium will explore the ways in which intermediality enhances photography’s artistic endeavour, how it shapes our understanding of contemporary photography and how it can help us to understand the history of photography as a whole.
The Biennale of Student Photography organised by the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, is a unique event in the region which tries to present students’ annual production in the field of photography. After twelve years of successful presentation of students’ works, the organiser wishes to expand the original format of the Biennale towards interdisciplinary research of contemporary sensibilities in photography. Gathering academic institutions, art venues and photography research centres from Serbia and Europe, the Symposium will strive to map diverse educational methods important for future photography development programs and to reflect on contemporary photography education in the region. It will encourage a dialogue among lecturers, cultural workers and artists, who use the medium of photography in an innovative way. It will try to discuss artists’ use of photography as a method of visual research from the second half of the 19th century till the end of the 20th century, as well as to highlight the importance of new methodologies, educational strategies and artistic approaches developing in the 21st century.
The Symposium is divided into two sections. The first section includes topics that explore photography as an educational method. The second one looks at photography as a general method of visual research of history, politics, society, identity, memory, space, gender.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Donald WeberPhotographer and professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Hague
Marina Paulenka
Artist and the artistic director of the Photography Festival “Organ Vida” Zagreb, Croatia
István Virágvölgyi
Curator, photo editor, secretary of the “Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize”, Hungary
Proceedings at the Symposium are limited to 20 minutes.
Participants will explore the following issues:
PHOTOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION
- Contemporary Photography Education
- Advantages of Formal Education in Photography
- International Collaboration and Photography Projects
- Modalities of Teaching Photography in the Region and their Prospects
- Roles of Festivals, Workshops and Photography Biennales in Today’s Fast-Moving Photography World
- The Use of Vernacular Technologies in Professional Photographic Practices
- How to Tackle Dichotomies between Analogue and Digital Photographic Processes and Aesthetics
- Situating Photographic Studies in Different Educational Frameworks (i.e. Photography as Part of Film and Media Departments/ Photography as Part of Fine Arts Departments)
VISUAL CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY
- Photography as an Art and Identity
- Identity and Visual Culture Seen through a Photographic Lens
- Identity as a Social Construct: From Photography to Film
- Photography and Fictions
SPACE, URBAN ISSUES AND PHOTOGRAPHY
- City as a Scene
- City as a Studio
- City as a Subject
PHOTOGRAPHY, DOCUMENTATION, MEMORY
- Documenting the Memory
- Documenting the Present
- Documenting the History
- Photography and the Archive
- Materiality of the Photographic Image
- Digitisation of the Photographic Image
PHOTOGRAPHY, COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS
- Media, Visual Culture and Photography
- Photography as an Image of Politics
- Visual Ethics, Photojournalism and War Reporting
- Photography as a Method of Visual Communication
PHOTOGRAPHY AND GENDER
- Photography, Gender, Private and Public Space
- Photojournalism and Representations of Gender
- Photography and Feminist and Post-Colonial Studies
- Photography and Body Representations
- Feminist Studies, Cultural Productions and the Photographic Medium
IT WILL INCLUDE THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ACCOMPANIED WITH ABSTRACTS AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.