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25/6/2002

Photo-Synthesis

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Explorations into Contemporary Photomedia

'Photo-Synthesis: Explorations into Contemporary Photomedia' is a series of monthly lectures and panel discussions at CCP between June and October 2002. This year the series aims to establish a 'synthesis' between theory and practice, making connections with current developments in photographic and curatorial practice. The series commences with a panel on the collecting practices of our public institutions, and features solo lectures by Alasdair Foster (Australian Centre for Photography), Rhana Devenport (Asia-Pacific Triennial) and Charles Green (University of Melbourne), as well as a special panel on digital art practice.

June 26 Photography and the Collection
Isobel Crombie, Michael Galimany, Kelly Gellatly & Jane Scott
Chaired by Clare Williamson

How do photographs come to be in public institutions? Who chooses which images to buy and on what grounds? This forum will explore the policies and attitudes that inform the various collecting practices of Melbourne's premier photographic institutions. Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria, will speak about the process of collecting in an art photography department; Michael Galimany, a Curator in the La Trobe Picture Collection, will describe the way the State Library of Victoria collects photographs; Kelly Gellatly, Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art and former curator of photography at the National Gallery of Australia, will draw on her various experiences; and Jane Scott, Director of Monash Gallery of Art, will discuss her organisation's large collection of photography. The session will be chaired by Clare Williamson, Exhibitions Curator at the State Library of Victoria and CCP Board Member, who has also worked with photography at the Queensland Art Gallery and at ACCA. This session will be of interest to artists working with photography, collectors, critics and anyone with a passion for photography.

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July 24 Rhana Devenport Reflections on Contemporary Asia Pacific
Photography: the Image, the Performative and the Cinematic

Contemporary art from Asia and the Pacific is among the most exciting and dynamic in the world today. In this presentation, Rhana Devenport will discuss contemporary photo-based art from the region, with a focus on the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Triennial. APT 2002 features a group of artists from a rich field in which the photographic and the moving image are considered. This Triennial draws out particular inflections in the practice of a set of important artists, and consciously explores cinematic, performative and spatial concerns through engaging the sensual impulse in highly individuated ways. Shifts in video and filmic languages are registered in this exhibition which includes still photography as both documentation and experimentation as well as actions and gestures captured through static, moving and sequential images.

Rhana Devenport is Senior Project Officer, Asia-Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery. She has been involved with the Triennial project since its inception in 1993, spanning curatorial participation, publishing, promotion and public programming. She is a frequent contributor to art journals and serves on advisory committees for Asialink (Melbourne), Object (Sydney) and the Asian Art Archive (Hong Kong).

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August 21 Alasdair Foster Art Without the Artist?

In this provocative presentation, Alasdair Foster explores the use of art and looks to a near future when art may no longer rely upon or privilege the artist-producer. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including neurophysiology, economics, art history, behavioural science and consilience theory, Foster offers what he calls "a polemic refracted in a crystal ball".

Alasdair Foster is the Director of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. With a hybrid education in physics, photography, history and theatre, his career has spanned the film industry, commercial and art photographic practice, curation and writing. Before moving to Australia, he was the founding director of Fotofeis, the award-winning biennial of international photography in Scotland.

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September 18 Picturing the Digital
Alessio Cavallaro, Linda Erceg & Keely Macarow
Chaired by Daniel Palmer

What has become of the image in the digital age? How are digital technologies - the metamedia tool of the computer - continuing to influence the practice of image making? What is 'digital art', when a majority of contemporary art and photomedia passes through a digital phase at some point in its production? This panel session considers this theme in relation to contemporary art practice and exhibition. Alessio Cavallaro, Producer/Curator of New Media Projects at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, will consider the role of this new institution and its dialogue with contemporary art practice; digital media artist Linda Erceg will discuss the trajectory of her art practice from analogue photography to digital installations; Keely Macarow, curator, writer, media arts producer and lecturer in the Media Arts department at RMIT University, will discuss her mediating role between contemporary art and digital technologies. The session will be chaired by CCP's digital art curator, Daniel Palmer, and will be of particular interest to artists working between photography and new media.

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October 23 Charles Green Atlas: Images versus Language

Charles Green begins this lecture with Terry Smith's question: What has been the fate of the image in modernity? Arguing that a range of influential contemporary theorists respond overwhelmingly with a farewell, in the now familiar vocabulary of simulacra, the return of the real, and the depletion of an image's auratic presence, Green agrees that this 'image crisis' is best observed in photography and on the screen. However, the much-vaunted interdisciplinarity of critical theory turned out to be almost entirely one-way, commencing with the seismic 1980s importation of theory into art practice, art theorists today propose different viewpoints - that artists can produce new knowledge through images, and at the same time that images must not be reduced to writing. Other theorists argue that we are on the verge of a new understanding of visuality propelled by new media. Weighing up approaches to the image and finding them wanting, Green speculates as to how and why recent international art has arrived at a conception of itself that is different from both pre-modern art and postmodernism.

Dr Charles Green is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Senior Curator 20th-21st Century Art, National Gallery of Victoria. He is also an artist, working collaboratively with Lyndell Brown since 1989. A regular contributor of articles and reviews to Australian and international art journals, notably Artforum, his book publications include Peripheral Vision: Contemporary Australian Art 1970-94 (Craftsman House, 1995) and The Third Hand: Artist Collaborations from Modernism to Conceptualism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). He is currently working on a major history of Australian art after 1968.

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All lectures Wednesday nights at at CCP, 6.30pm

Single Tickets $7 full / $5 conc (inc GST)
Season Pass $25 full / $18 conc (inc GST)

Seats are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

To order a Season Pass, providing discounted admission to lecture sessions, by mail

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
+613-9417-1549
+613-9417-1605

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