Images in Circulation

The first International Helsinki Photography Research Conference

Theme: Images in Circulation

28-30 March 2012, School of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland

A one-day symposium exploring the role of photography in ideas about cultural hybridity, globalisation and modernity.

To be held at the Sainsbur Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich 3 February 2012.

http://www.danielblau.com/fairs-events/2011/the-ends-of-dissolution/

University of Newcastle Public Lecture

Photography: Key Concepts in now published in Japan with the prestigious Tokyo publishers Film Art

Book launch and Public Discussion at the Photographers Gallery, London on 24 November at 7pm

See the Photographers Gallery website for details.

 IGRS (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies): Photography Research Seminar

The Clinical Picture ?The photographs of hysterics made by Jean Charcot's clinic have been subject to at least four different interpretations. Firstly there was the discourse of clinical pictures initiated by Jean Charcot the neurologist, then the photographs were championed by the surrealists as a supreme 'expression', thirdly taken up by feminist theory in relation to psychoanalysis and recently by Ulrich Bauer in relation to 'trauma'. This talk re-evaluates the photographs via a return to their original context of the clinic and hysteria to reconsider what kind of expressive gestures are involved in these photographs and what kind of meanings have been constructed via the image, body and language.

Dr David Bate  Monday 9 November, 2009 Time: 6-8pm

The special 50th issue of Portfolio magazine had 50 of the UK’s key visual artist/photographers. AUS-09 is included in this celebratory issue and an  essay on the last decades of exhibition photography.

Website launched June 2009

David Bate's work (from Zero Culture) included in Gerry Smith's self-curated exhibition in Ostend.