Syndicate: SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOGRAPHY XVII, Graz

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOGRAPHY XVII

AGENTS AND AGENCIES.
Photography between Discourse and Document II

October 17 - 19, 1997
Marieninstitut, Kirchengasse 1, Graz

This year's SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOGRAPHY is carrying on from last
year's focus on contemporary photography as a cultural technique.
"Photography between discourse and document"- the title of an essay by
Benjamin Buchloh - refers to the multivalent and equivocal status of
photography as a means of representation that would on the one hand
appear to portray a constant reoccurrence of the real (document) and, on the
other, that acts as a vehicle and agent of cultural communication, i. e.
operating within the symbolic order of culture which allows it to open up
fields
of operation and agencies for concrete meanings, initiatives and claims to
representativeness.
But what is the position regarding this "agency" of photography in view of the
tremendous reorganization of visual communication by the fast development
of new media technologies, i. e. in a situation in which the "agents" of the
production of meaning would seem to have moved off into the realm of
media systems? Being simultaneously defined in terms of media/technology
and discourse, photography is in a situation of interchange with other
cultural
practices whose rapid change and reworking has induced us to focus on the
problems surrounding the concepts of representation, knowledge,
experience, aesthetics, etc., which has of course equally left its mark on
photography. If there is no pre-discursive social reality that could be
represented "directly", photography is fundamentally tied to practices of
reflection that are able to objectify and designate cultural conditions, i.
e. that
are able to create social facts by designating them - by representing agents
of their appearance. "Agents and Agencies" introduces several such
practices of reflection into the discourse on photography, again conveying
artistic photographic practices into a general context of analysis and
description of contemporary society.

PARTICIPANTS:

Geoffrey Batchen (USA/AUS), Timothy Druckrey (USA), Douglas Fogle
(USA), Yve Lomax (GB), Christian HÅ¡ller (A), Susanne Lummerding (A),
Sam Samore (USA), Beat Streuli (CH), Mitra Tabrizian (GB), Ricardo Zulueta
(USA)


OPENING: Friday, October 17, 1997, 6.00 pm


LECTURES: Friday, 17. 10. 1997, 6.30 pm / 9.00 pm
	   Saturday, 18. 10. 1997, 11.00 am / 7.00 pm / 9.00 pm
	   Sunday, 19. 10. 1997, 11.00 am / 2.00 pm

INFORMATIONand detailed program:
Camera Austria - Labor fŸr Fotografie und Theorie
A-8010 Graz, Sparkassenplatz 2
tel. # 43 / (0) 316 / 81 55 500, fax 81 55 509
e-mail: camera.austria @ thing.at
http://www.thing.at / thing / camera.austria

OVERALL PROGRAMME steirischer herbst, press office:
A-8010 Graz, Sackstra§e 17/I
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e-mail: stherbst @ ping.at
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Advanced TICKET SALES: Kartenzentrale steirischer herbst 96,
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Mon - Fri 11.00 am - 6.00 pm, Sat 11.00 am - 3.00 pm

HOTEL INFORMATIONGrazer Tourismus
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tel. # 43 / (0) 316 / 8075 - 59, -60, -61, -62, fax 8075 - 55.

PUBLICATION of contributions in CAMERA AUSTRIA no. 65 - 66 / 1998.
Program is subject to changes.

ORGANISATION:
CAMERA AUSTRIA - Labor fŸr Fotografie und Theorie
A-8010 Graz, Sparkassenplatz 2
tel +43 / (0) 316 / 81 55 500, fax 81 55 509
e-mail camera.austria @ thing.at



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