March 19th-20th
Location: School of Digital Arts
Event Type: In-person
This conference examines the significance of darkness, proposing to invert our thinking about photography and remind us of the image’s many entanglements and consequences, buried possibilities and repressed impulses. Drawing together artists, researchers, writers, curators, the conference makes visible the many resonances of darkness as a necessary subject in approaching photography’s elaborate material, industrial, psychical and social roots and interconnections.
Organised by the Photography Programme in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Media and Digital Culture Research Group.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:
Thursday 19th March
GF.12 SODA Cinema
Ground Floor, SODA Building
13.00 – 13.25 Duncan Wooldridge – Introduction
13.25 – 15.15 Panel 1: Dark Matters (Presentations by Michelle Henning, Zsuzsanna Szegedy Maszak, Julie Hill and Sian Macfarlane)
15.15 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 16.55 Panel 2: Dark Thinking (Presentations by Sarah Jones, Tom Viaene and Jamie Jelinski)
16.55 – 17.10 Break
17.10 – 19.00 Panel 3: Dark Tech (Presentations by Lisa Barnard, Holly Birtles, Teemu Hupli and Helen McGhie)
Friday 20th March
2.19 SODA Village Green
2nd Floor, SODA Building
10.00 – 10.15 DW – Introduction
10.15 – 12.05 Panel 4: Dark Times (Presentations by Roger Ballen, Yiwei Wang, Laura Hynd, and Sue Fox)
12.05 – 13.00 Lunch + Film Screenings
13.00 – 14.25 Panel 5: Dark Rooms (Presentations by Sara Dominici, Aspen Mays and David Penny)
14.25 – 15.10 Break and Performances (Performances by Lucy Soutter, Jessie Edwards-Thomas and Tom
Lovelace)
14.55 – 15.10 Break
15.10 – 17.00 Panel 6: Dark Sites (Presentations by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Manila Castoro, Jana Müller and Benjamin Gree)
