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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, Serbia

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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 Weber
Photographer 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

VISUAL CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY

SPACE, URBAN ISSUES AND PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY, DOCUMENTATION, MEMORY

PHOTOGRAPHY, COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS

PHOTOGRAPHY AND GENDER

FULL PROGRAM OF THE SYMPOSIUM WILL BE ANNOUNCED NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 15th 2017.

IT WILL INCLUDE THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ACCOMPANIED WITH ABSTRACTS AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.