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FotoFocus all-day Symposium, in partnership with The Carnegie, will address digital technology’s impact on photography and its disruption of art making and news cycles in a media obsessed world.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
9:45am: Opening Remarks
10am: Panel: Curators and The Digital Museum
11am: Conversation: Digital Evolution/Digital Revolution
12pm: Panel: Deepfake News
1pm: Lunch Break
2pm: Comment by Nancy Burson: Seeing is Believing
2:30pm: Panel: Artists in the Forest of Signs
3:30pm: Panel: Documentary Filmmaking: Observing Outside the Lines
5pm: Artist Keynote with Trevor Paglen
More complete schedule: https://www.fotofocus.org/symposium/2019/program-schedule/
Free and open to the public.
About the theme: Inspired by the 1994 Aperture special edition Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age, which both envisioned fantastical uses and dire consequences of programs like Adobe Photoshop, AutoUpdate presents a much needed update on how digital technologies have continued to affect our understanding of photography as an artistic medium and in our current age of “post-truth” and artificial intelligence. The Symposium examines photography and film in today’s current artistic and political climate. This series of lectures and panel discussions invites international artists and speakers to review photography’s part in the current global crisis of information exchange; the fate of documentary filmmaking in a “post-truth” age; and will offer a historical and philosophical assessment of digital imaging, past and future.
ADMISSION INFO
Free and open to the public, this symposium will include panel discussions throughout the day and is designed to be flexible, allowing people to attend all day or the panel of their choice. All seating is based on first-come-first-served availability.
