Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s

The AHRC Project 'Aesthetics After Photography' invites you to register for the concluding conference:
 
Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s 
10-12 June 2010,
Tate Modern, London

Despite attending to similar features of photography as an artistic medium, philosophers and art historians have drawn opposed conclusions about their implications. This conference brings them into dialogue around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process.

Speakers include the artist Jeff Wall; philosophers: David Davies, Nigel Warburton, Cynthia Freeland, Sherri Irvin and Diarmuid Costello; and art historians: Carol Armstrong, Robin Kelsey, Anna Dezeuze, Briony Fer, Susan Laxton, Margaret Iversen and Joel Snyder,

Tate Modern, London. Starr Auditorium
£25 (£20 concessions), to avoid disappointment early booking is strongly recommended
For tickets book online www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/21572)
or call 020 7887 8888.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 18.30–20.00: keynote speech by Jeff Wall followed by wine reception
Friday 11 June 2010, 10.30–18.00
Saturday 12 June 2010, 10.30–18.00

For more information, including a full programme of titles and abstracts see:

www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/aestheticsafterphotography/agencyandautomatism/
www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/ahrc/events/

This event is part of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Aesthetics after Photography’ directed by Margaret Iversen (University of Essex) and Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick).