Research group at London School of Film, Media & Design, UWL. Photography, light, cinema, after-the-image, image & spatiality, philosophy, theory, image & text
Solidarity to our colleagues @ScienceMuseum in Bradford, Manchester, York & London, who were on strike today - because 25% of their workers are paid beneath living wage.
Much of our research wouldn't be possible without them.
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Our second #LightSensitiveMaterial panel features:
💾📺 @joel_mckim on oscillons, cathode rays & photographic hybrids
🎹🔦 Pierre-Jacques Pernuit on the light machines of Thomas Wilfred
🖐️🎞️ @experimentalKim on gestures of material film practice
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Laura U. Marks is our first #LightSensitiveMaterial keynote speaker.
Professor of Contemporary Art @SFU Vancouver, she works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus.
Her lecture – A Radical Indexicality: Cultivating Cosmic Perception 🌠
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In the lead up to #LightSensitiveMaterial, we introduce our keynote speakers...
Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy @CRMEP, Kingston University. He has published on Kant, Kafka, 20th century philosophy and aesthetics. His paper: The Photography of Plants 🌱
Light | Sensitive | Material
1-2 November 2019
@UWL_LSFMD
*Booking now open*
Our conference will examine photography as both material & immaterial, addressing the tangible properties of photographic objects and the ecosystems in which they circulate.
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Thanks to everybody who put in to our Light Sensitive Material Conference. We received lots of proposals! The call for papers is now closed and we are now in process of selection.
What do photographs ‘do’ in museums? Find out at our biannual lecture, Elizabeth Edwards on 'Collections, Non-collections and Ecosystems: Case notes on photographic cultures in the Museum’. 4 July at @sciencemuseummghg.info/forthcoming-events. Free to members
University of West London currently has an open call for proposals for PhD scholarships (stipend: £15,000 pa).
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How to apply:
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Image/Photo/Literature/Film thinkers email: garin.dowd@uwl.ac.uk and/or michelle.henning@uwl.ac.uk
REGISTRATION STILL OPEN! The programme and registeration information for our #PHRC19 conference THE BUSINESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY are both available via the conference webpage: bit.ly/2RHIK28 Registration will close on 3 June '19 but why wait!?? #photography#photohist