“On the material level, the shift to digital representation and the common modification/editing tools which can be applied to

most media (copy, paste, morph, interpolate, filter, composite, etc.) and which substitute traditional distinct artistic tools erased

the differences between photography and painting (in the realm of the still image) […]” 1

 

The PhotographyDigitalPainting symposium is a one-day research event being held at the QUAD Arts Centre Derby UK, on the 23rd October 2019 and continues the investigations begun with PaintingDigitalPhotography into how artists and theorists currently engage with the interrelationships of photography, the digital and painting. The first conference revealed the breadth and depth of work and analysis being undertaken in this area, from John Hilliard’s photographic practice referencing a painterly vocabulary, to the digital work of Gerhard Richter.  As continuous advancements in digital technology radicalizes, repositions and re-defines traditional mediums, it is evident that the vast and rapidly expanding range of interconnected practices in this field require much further explication.

 

This second event therefore aims to look further into these connections by asking how photography, the digital and painting are synthesized in 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? 

 

Presentations will cover: 

 

• Painting and the digital 

• Photography and the digital

• Painting-photography / Photography-painting

• Interconnectivity between all three mediums -photography, digital and painting – in the formation of unified forms.

 

Keynote speaker Mario Klingemann will discuss his current work with AI in the creation of  artworks.

 

1 Lev Manovich,”Post-media Aesthetics”, http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/post-media-aesthetics