Featuring guest speakers:
Dr
. John O’Brian\, Professor of Art History\, University of British
Columbia
Dr. Ron Burnett\, President\, Emily Carr Uni
versity
Dr. Sharla Sava\, Writer and Educator\, Capil
ano University
The Agency of Images gathers together historians of ph otography and theorists of the Image to discuss how new technologies of pic ture taking and distribution are changing our understanding of photography today. The panel will consider how images have been freed from certain cons traints related to the analogue era of photography in ways that open up new possibilities of understanding the image. In the digital era of photograph y the intervention into and alteration of the photograph has increased expo nentially\, archives of imagery have expanded at a rapid pace\, and the exc hange of photographic images have followed new economies of exchange. The p anel will consider the implications of these changes on the future of fine art and visual culture. Presentations will begin with a review of vernacula r and high art photography from the Cold War that pictured the future throu gh images of nuclear collapse\; the discussion will then shift to consider some the differences between analogue and digital images in relation to the philosophy of images more broadly\; the final presentation will consider n ew directions in self-portraiture and its relation to temporality and durat ion on the web.
The Agency of Images is organized in conjunction with Glocal – a contributive digital art and photography project currently in r esidence at the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab. Over the past 15 months\, art ists based at the Surrey Art Gallery have collected upwards of 50\,000 digi tal images from contributors around the world.
Guest Speakers
:
Dr. Ron Burnett\, President\, Emily Carr Institute of
Art and Design is a film and video maker\, photographer\, web designer and
writer. He has published three books\, most recently\, How Images Think (
MIT Press\, 2005) and over 150 articles in journals and books worldwide.
Dr. Sharla Sava is a writer and university educator. She has lectured\, curated exhibitions\, and published a variety of articles about art after modernism\, discussing the work of Robert Filliou\, Ray Johnson\, N.E. Thin g Co.\, Jeff Wall\, Antonia Hirsch\, among others.
Dr. John O'Brian i s an art and photo historian and UBC's Brenda and David McLean Chair in Can adian Studies. He has published more than a dozen books on Canadian\, moder nist and contemporary art. His present research concentrates on the engagem ent of photography with the atomic era in North America and Japan.
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rrey Art Gallery
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www.surreytechlab.ca
Acknowledgments: The Surrey Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial contribution of: City of Surrey\, Cultural Capitals of Canada \, Department of Canadian Heritage\, Arts Partners in Creative Development\ , Canada Council for the Arts\, Canadian Museums Association\, Young Canada Works\, and British Columbia Arts Council.
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