Spatial Practices: Photography, Video and Architecture
A Photoforum conference
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone, Friday April 29th. 9.30-5.00,
£30 , £15 concessions ( lunch included)

This conference explores the increasingly complex relationship between our
experience of the built environment and the mediating technologies of
photography and video. How have these forms of representation contributed to
the development of architectural ideas? What kinds of power relationships
are implicated by them?  To what extent is modernist architecture always
already inscribed within a photographic understanding of the world? And how
is our experience of those spaces affected by its interception and
representation in the photograph and on the screen? As photographic and
video-based media tend toward a convergence, particularly in the field of
installation art, the real time relationship that they have to architectural
space and to the mobile spectator, becomes more interesting and challenging.


10.00 -11.15 Architectures of Power: 
Ed Whittaker (BathSpa University) 
Heterotopia and the Camera of Reason; Foucault's Photography of
Architecture.

Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton)
The Architecture of Containment: photograph and the H blocks of
Long Kesh/Maze. Northern Ireland


11.45 - 1.00 Utopian/ Distopian Practices:
Robin Wilson ( University College London): 
Architectural Photography: Genre Rules and Utopian Ruptures.

Mark Sanderson ( Kent Institute of Art and Design): 
Totalitarian Play 

2.00 - 3.15 Architecture in Contemporary Photographic Practice.
Roy Exley ( Writer/ critic)
'Photographic Genius: Framing a Sense of Place

Adrian Lovis (Kent Institute of Art and Design)
Figure and Space in the work of Jeff Wall


3.30 - 5.00  Movement and Space 
Joanna Walker  (Cambridge University)
The Evolving Oblique- The Embodiment of a Virtual Topology

Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone ( University of the Arts London,
Goldsmiths College) Motion Path: Filming Erich Mendelsohn's buildings



The Speakers

Ed Whittaker is a lecturer and photographer interested in trace and
periodisation in architectural and landscape topography. His work was
included in Open Secret at the Imperial War Museum, London 2004. He lectures
at Bath Spa University College and the University of East London. 

.Dr Louise Purbrick is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at
the University of Brighton. She is author of 'The Architecture of
Containment' in D. Wylie's The Maze, Granta, 2004 and is currently editing a
book that deals with politics of recording, preserving and representing
sites of conflict, entitled Contested Spaces.

Robin Wilson, writer/curator, is currently completing a PhD at the Bartlett
School of Architecture, UCL.  His article on Japanese architectural
photographer Hisao Suzuki will be published in the Journal of Architecture
this Spring.
 Mark Sanderson  is a theorist and architectural photographer. Current
research is on Italian architecture of coastal resorts for working class
children during the fascist era. The work explores the idea of the ruin, the
modern project, utopia and the state. Architectural photography has been
published in numerous architecture and interior design publications.
Roy Exley is a  Lecturer in Critical Theory, School of Photography, KIAD,
and Freelance Art Critic and Curator He recently  curated 'Amplifying
Silence/Magnifying 
Stillness' at Fondation d'Art Contemporain, Daniel et Florence 
Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France, 2003
Adrian Lovis is an artist/photographer and Senior Lecturer in Visual Theory,
KIAD. His work engage the spectator in often complex dialogue around the
image, vision and the act of looking, realized in a variety of media
including photography, drawing, video, and neon. His work was recently shown
at K3 Project Space, Zurich,2003.
Joanna Walker is an artist currently completing a PhD in the School of
Architecture, Cambridge on issues of corporeality and spatiality. Her
latest project featured in Ars Electronica and was exhibited in Japan,
Korea, New York and Prague, this summer. 

Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone are artists who have worked together
since 1992. They are currently exhibiting in Open: New Directions in Public
Space at the 
National Building Museum, Washington. 'Motion Path' is funded by Film
London.











      
Booking Form

Conference Venue Kent Institute of Art and Design, Oakwood Park, Maidstone 

Friday 29th April 2005

Registration (and coffee): from 9.30
Conference begins: 10.00
Conference ends 5.00


Conference Fees (morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea are
included)

Full fee : £30
Concessions* : £15

Early booking is advised. No refunds will be made for any cancellations made
less than one week before the conference.

*Concessionary rates are available to full-time students and unwaged. Please
send proof of status when booking.

No wheelchair access

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Julie Ross. Research Administrator, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Fort
Pitt, Rochester, Kent ME1 1DZ.
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of Art and Design, Oakwood Park, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8AG
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