Forms of photographic communication in the 21st century
SUNDAY MARCH 28
11 am– 6 pm
Auditoriet, Moderna museet, Stockholm
The rapidly developing technologies of visual communication that have followed in the wake of the emergent digital cultures, as well as the quickly mutating and proliferating new social media within visual culture, have radically changed and expanded the ways of using and communicating with photographs. What are the consequences of the migration of amateur photography from the physical album to the screen, of the uses of websites for amateur communication, or of the increasing articulation of the photograph as a performance in the present rather than a signifier of the past? How to narrate the contemporary traffic in photographs? What are, indeed, the contemporary uses of photographs? Invited contributors include researchers, thinkers, artists and photographers investigating and articulating ways of using, managing and communicating with photographs in the present.
Keynote:
- Karen Cross (GBR), Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Roehampton, London.
Contributors:
- Ronald Jones (SWE), Artist and critic, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.
- Håkan Nilsson (SWE), Associate professor in art theory at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and in art history at Södertörn University, Stockholm.
- Karin Wagner (SWE), Senior lecturer in art history and visual studies at the IT University of Göteborg.
- Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (FIN), Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki.
- Anna Tellgren (SWE), Curator Photography, Moderna museet in Stockholm.
Artists/Photographers:
Moderator:
- Karin Becker (SWE), Professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK) at Stockholm University.
PROGRAM SUNDAY MARCH 28
11.00 – 11.10 Introduction Karin Becker
11.10 – 11.30 Anna Tellgren, Aspects on Contemporary Photography in the
Moderna Museet Collection.
11.30 – 12.10 Karen Cross, Photography and ‘The Cult of the Amateur’.
12.10 – 12.40 Håkan Nilsson, Imaging photography in the post-media condition.
12.40 – 13.10 Bertien van Manen, Artist talk.
13.10 – 13.50 Lunch
13.50 – 14.20 Karin Wagner, What is everybody else doing right now?
14.20 – 14.45 Johan Willner, Boy Stories.
14.45 – 15.15 Trinidad Carillo, Artist talk.
15.15 – 15.30 Paus
15.30 – 16.00 Ronald Jones, I Saw It.
16.00 – 16.30 Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Show and share – Personal and parental perspectives to the use of images in mobile communication and photo sharing sites.
16.30 – 17.00 Thomas Hämén, Photography in virtual landscapes.
17.00 – 17.15 Paus
17.15 – 18.00 Round Table Discussion: Using photographs. Forms of photographic communication in the 21st century with Karen Cross, Håkan Nilsson, Karin Wagner, Ronald Jones. Moderator Karin Becker.