The DigitalPaintingPhotography international online symposium is the third event in the series of investigations that began with PaintingDigitalPhotography and PhotographyDigitalPainting into how artists and theorists currently engage with the interrelationships of the digital, painting, and photography. The first symposiums revealed the breadth of work and analysis being undertaken in this area, and as ongoing developments of digital technologies unmoor the sense of location of traditional mediums it is evident that the vast range of interlinked practices in this field require much further explication. This third event therefore aims to look deeper into these connections by asking how the natures of the digital, painting, and photography are being redefined through hybridized and synthesized contemporary art practices, and what theories are being developed to support this. In what ways do these mediums inflect/infect one another, what does this fusion tell us about their discrete natures, and what new forms are created through this combination? 

 

The symposium is comprised of a two-day event.  Whilst the presentations cover the spectrum of interconnections between the digital, painting, and photography, talks have been ordered so as to complement one another and create broad themes of investigation:

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Thursday 21st October:

Morning -  Painting–Digital / Photography.  Martin Lang, Dawn Wooley / Zara Worth, Abbie Schug, and Dan Hays's presentations centre on painting's relationship with the digital / photography.

Afternoon -  Digital–Painting / Photography.  Allen Hirsh, Ian Truelove, and Till Julian Huss's presentations look at the deployment of the digital in painting practices and the position of artist as painter / digital author.

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Friday 22nd October:

Morning - Digital–Photography / Painting.  Dawn Woodley, Mick Finch, and Rhys Himsworth's presentations centre on practices that explore mining digital archives as source material, combining materials, collaging, and topography.

Afternoon (1) - Photography–Painting / Digital.  Theresia Stipp, Clare Strand, and Elias Wessel's presentations explore the photography–painting / digital relationship in their own and others' work.

Afternoon (2) - Painting–Photography–Digital.  Rahma Khazam and Matt Saunders's presentations look at combining the three mediums in still and moving-image making.