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Aalto University

Helsinki Photomedia Conference CFP Extended deadline Jan 15, 2024 !

Theme: Contact of Models

Photography implies a contact with a specific perceiving body. It requires matching different models and sometimes conflicting registers of evidence. It suggests a series of encounters, negotiations and agreements between photographers and their subjects, the viewers, and the images themselves. Despite the emerging new technologies and rapid ways of dissemination, images are still encountered at various stages of their existence one-to-one, in the interaction between a viewer and a medium.  

Images are formed in such encounters, which may take manifold forms. At these points of contact photographic actions, gestures and symptoms partake in the malleable modelling of the world. Photography has the ability to re-present – and simultaneously – to actively and imaginatively engage and promote new ways of seeing and showing as well as deceiving and occluding. 

From this perspective, photographs have, embedded within, an ability to look at the past and the future. In them, time itself confronts us. As photographs also extend beyond the bounds of visibility, we can follow their traces, vestiges, try to read their signs and decipher their meanings. Or we can choose to explore their illegible parts and behaviours, the reserves and residues of force that elude straightforward attempts at sensemaking. 

Images impact us, and in them models both get visual form, but also at times collide. They are sites for moments of mutual understanding or instances of incongruence and discord. They are fleeting, or pensive, and at times can affect far-reaching decisions. They are spontaneous or archival. Their scale is human, or they have a sensor’s ‘gaze’. They guide our critical responsibilities and escort us to powers of imagination and fiction. They conjure visual disturbances and anachronistic temporalities. 

How are the practices and models that orient our use and analysis of images relevant and for whom? What does it entail to see images as mimetic depictions or as products and prototypes? How do the models evolve or become obsolete, what do they exclude, what ideas of time and stratification do they carry? When do images question the kinds of models they rely on? 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Emmanuel Alloa, Marjaana Kella and Bernhard Siegert

https://helsinkiphotomedia.aalto.fi/keynote-speakers-2024/

Conference dates: 11-13 April 2024

Venue: Dipoli, Aalto University (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo, Finland)

 

SUBMIT ABSTRACT 

The call for papers for the 6th Helsinki Photomedia Conference is now open. We cordially invite scholars, professionals, photographers and practitioners closely working with photographic imaging to share their insights and diverse perspectives on the theme: Contact of Models.

Please submit your abstract via this link: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/7C3D9A64972BF038

 

Submission Guidelines 

  1. Extended Abstract: 800-1000 words describing the research objectives, methodology, and key findings or contributions.
  2. Keywords: Follow the abstract with no more than 5 keywords to pinpoint the main themes of the proposal
  3. Biography: A brief biography (up to 100 words) of the author(s).

Format: PDF or Word Document 

Naming: For Abstract, LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_TITLE. For Bio, LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME

Language: All submissions must be in English. 

Originality: All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

Theme: Contact of Models

Photography implies a contact with a specific perceiving body. It requires matching different models and sometimes conflicting registers of evidence. It suggests a series of encounters, negotiations and agreements between photographers and their subjects, the viewers, and the images themselves. Despite the emerging new technologies and rapid ways of dissemination, images are still encountered at various stages of their existence one-to-one, in the interaction between a viewer and a medium. 

Subthemes 

We invite participants to address and challenge these concerns from the perspective of their practice, guided by the following intertwined subthemes: 

  1. Technological mediations
  2. Artistic research practices
  3. Images and representations

The committee will select evaluators based on the declared category(ies).

Important Dates

– NEW Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024 !

– Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2024  

Registration and Fees

– Early Bird (15 January – 29 February 2024): 175 €

– Regular (1 March – 31 March 2024): 250€

– Student Fee: 125€

Contact Information 

https://helsinkiphotomedia.aalto.fi/

For any inquiries related to the call for papers, please reach out to: 

Email: info-hpm@aalto.fi 

Please specify in the subject line: ‘SUBMISSION’ for questions concerning the submission process.

contact: info-hpm@aalto.fi

 

 

 

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