ICPT2022
6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY & THEORY
Expanded Visualities: Photography & Emerging Technologies
November 17-19, 2022
Nicosia, Cyprus
Organizers:
International Association of Photography and Theory & CYENS Centre of Excellence
ICPT2022 Theme
Emerging technologies have had a significant impact on photographic representations, as well as on the production, distribution and reception of photographic images. Technologies such as 360-degree photography have expanded the photographic frame and have provided the stage for VR and AR applications. Drones and satellite images have contributed to new visualizations of experiences, understandings and documentations of spaces. Machine-made images such as synthetic images, GANs, and Deep Fakes have entered our visual landscape and have complicated our relationship with reality. As a result of these developments, relevant issues of ethics, agency and power, have equally become more urgent than ever.
The conference aims to address questions relevant to the ways in which emerging technologies, such as 360 photography, artificial intelligence, machine-made images, augmented reality, satellites, drones, etc. influence photographic practices and potentially expand contemporary visualities. Can such technologies “expand” or “limit” the photographic vision and frame? And if so, what are the socio-political, aesthetic, and ethical implications of the use of such technologies in relation to photographic practices? How do emerging technologies impact on our relationship with photographic images, and on the medium of photography in general?
Keynote Speakers
Joanna Zylinska is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King’s College London. She is an author of a number of books, including AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams (Open Humanities Press, 2020) and Nonhuman Photography (MIT Press, 2017). An advocate of “radical open-access,” she is an editor of the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW book series for Open Humanities Press. Her art practice involves experimenting with different kinds of image-based media. In 2013 she was Artistic Director of Transitio_MX05 Biomediations, the biggest Latin American new media festival, which took place in Mexico City. She is currently researching perception and cognition as boundary zones between human and machine intelligence, while trying to answer the question: 'Does photography have a future?'.
Jahna Otterbacher received her doctorate from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA), School of Information. She is currently Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), and Vice Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Sciences. Jahna coordinates the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the OUC, which aims to shed light on algorithmic behaviors and to improve the human relationship with data-driven AI. In addition to her post at the OUC, Jahna holds a concurrent appointment as team leader of the Transparency in Algorithms Group at CYENS, a new center of excellence and innovation in Nicosia, Cyprus, in collaboration with two international Advanced Partners, UCL and MPI.
Manuela Naveau is a university professor, an independent curator and an art-based researcher. For almost 18 years she worked as curator and project manager at Ars Electronica Linz, where she developed the Ars Electronica Export department together with Artistic Director Gerfried Stocker and led it operationally since its inception. Since 2020, Manuela Naveau has been a university professor for Critical Data at the Interface Cultures Department / Institute of Media at the University of Art and Design Linz. Previously, she has held teaching positions at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, the Danube University Krems among others and in 2021 she was invited as a gues tprofessor at the Technical University in Vienna (Future.Lab). Her monography "Crowd and Art - Kunst und Partizipation im Internet" was published in 2017 by transcript Verlag, Germany. The book is based on her dissertation, for which she received the Award of Excellence from the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy in 2016.
ICPT2022 Organising & Scientific Committee
CHAIRS
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Cyprus University of Technology/ CYENS Centre of Excellence/ IAPT)
Kleanthis Neocleous (CYENS Centre of Excellence)
MEMBERS
Maria Shehade (CYENS Centre of Excellence)
Nicolas Lambouris (Frederick University)
Elena Stylianou (European University Cyprus)
Artemis Eleftheriadou (Frederick University)
Elena Parpa (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
ICPT2022 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Martin Hand, Queen’s University Kingston, Canada
Ashley Scarlett, Alberta University of the Arts, Canada
Liz Wells, University of Plymouth, UK
Nina Mangalanayagam, Akademin Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden
Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden
Mette Sandbye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sigrid Lien, University of Bergen, Norway
Martha Langford, Concordia University, Canada
Manuela Naveau, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
Christos Carras, Onassis Cultural Centre, Greece
Geoff Cox, London South Bank University, UK
Marinos Koutsomichalis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Doros Polydorou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Gavriel Koureas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Cyprus University of Technology/ CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
Kleanthis Neocleous, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
Maria Shehade, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
Nicolas Lambouris, Frederick University, Cyprus
Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus
Artemis Eleftheriadou, Frederick University, Cyprus
Elena Parpa, University of Nicosia, Cyprus