Departmental news
Aesthetics of Photography Lecture by Patrick Maynard - 3rd Feb 2009
Patrick Maynard (Emeritus Professor, University of Western Ontario) will visit the University of Warwick to present a lecture for the undergraduate Module 'Aesthetics and Photography' (PH249). He will discuss his theory of photography, published in The Engine of Visualisation: Thinking Through Photography. http://publish.uwo.ca/~pmaynard/
If you wish to attend this lecture, you must register in advance with Dr Dawn Phillips: dawn.phillips@warwick.ac.uk
Postgraduate Conference: Call For Papers - Deadline 31st January 2009
'Photography into Contemporary Art: The Bigger Picture'
A postgraduate conference on Friday 15th May 2009, University of Essex, Colchester.
Submission deadline for papers: 31st January 2009
Workshop: Photography as a Medium (post-digitalisation) - 21-22 November 2008
This two-day, 10-speaker workshop will address the question of photography as an artistic medium, by examining comparisons between traditional and digital photography.
The workshop aims to increase philosophical understanding of relevant technologies and artistic practices by including photographic artists working with digital technology alongside leading philosophers working in the aesthetics of photography.
Details of the venue, programme and registration are available from the workshop webpage.
Advance copies of the Workshop Papers are now available to registered participants.
Panel at the American Society for Aesthetics - 6 November 2008
Workshop with Kendall Walton - 16th June 2008
Kendall Walton will visit the Warwick Philosophy Department on Monday 16th June to participate in a one-day workshop.
Diarmuid Costello, Eileen John and Dawn Phillips will be among the speakers who will present responses to various aspects of Walton's work, including fiction and the imagination, poetry and photography.
Venue: SO.17 (Social Studies Building, University of Warwick)
Time: 11.00-18.00
First Public Event - Photography after Conceptual Art (2-day conference)
The first public event of this project is a two-day, sixteen-speaker panel at the Association of Art Historians' Annual Conference, the leading art history and theory event in the UK calendar.
The panel addresses transformations in the use of photography as an artistic medium over the last 40 years, with particular attention to the conceptual and pictorial traditions which are central to the use of photography as art in this period.
'Photography after Conceptual Art' brings together leading international speakers, travelling from Europe, Australia, Scandinavia the USA and Canada
AAH Annual Conference, April 2-4, 2008,
Tate Britain and Chelsea College of Art