The audio recordings from Light | Sensitive | Material conference (November 2019) are available as podcasts at backdoorbroadcasting.net/201…

Ausculter les images - Conversation avec Peter Szendy academia.edu/41962088/Auscul… via @academia

L'Imagement - Jean-Christophe Bailly - Littérature française via @EditionsduSeuil seuil.com/ouvrage/l-imagemen…

Our fourth #LightSensitiveMaterial panel features: 🏛️ Lucy Mensah @lkmens: Black Female Spectrality, Architectural Photography & Institutional Critique in @WEEMSCarrie 🎥 Lara Thompson: Past-Light: Photo-filmic History as (En)lightened Cinematic Fetish uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-ma…

Solidarity to our colleagues @ScienceMuseum in Bradford, Manchester, York & London, who were on strike today - because 25% of their workers are paid beneath living wage. Much of our research wouldn't be possible without them. #SMGstrike bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50…

It's less than two weeks until #LightSensitiveMaterial @UniWestLondon! Our third panel features: 🛩️ @THSorensen on Aerial Photography & Trench Warfare 🎯 @juspar on Operational Images 🥬 @croopier on The Vegetal Calculated Image See full schedule: uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-ma…

Our second #LightSensitiveMaterial panel features: 💾📺 @joel_mckim on oscillons, cathode rays & photographic hybrids 🎹🔦 Pierre-Jacques Pernuit on the light machines of Thomas Wilfred 🖐️🎞️ @experimentalKim on gestures of material film practice uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-ma…

In our first #LightSensitiveMaterial panel *Atmospheres of Photography and Film*, we encounter Antarctica, smoke, lava & strange radiance... ❄️ Liz Watkins @UniversityLeeds 🌋 Victor dos Reis @ULisboa_ ☀️ Stephen Turner & Susanna Collinson @AucklandUni uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-ma…

Laura U. Marks is our first #LightSensitiveMaterial keynote speaker. Professor of Contemporary Art @SFU Vancouver, she works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. Her lecture – A Radical Indexicality: Cultivating Cosmic Perception 🌠 uwl.ac.uk/light-sensitive-ma…

In the lead up to #LightSensitiveMaterial, we introduce our keynote speakers... Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy @CRMEP, Kingston University. He has published on Kant, Kafka, 20th century philosophy and aesthetics. His paper: The Photography of Plants 🌱

Light | Sensitive | Material 1-2 November 2019 @UWL_LSFMD *Booking now open* Our conference will examine photography as both material & immaterial, addressing the tangible properties of photographic objects and the ecosystems in which they circulate. thinkingtheimage.tumblr.com/…

Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW! philosophyofmovementblog.com… via @xThomas_Nail

Thanks to everybody who put in to our Light Sensitive Material Conference. We received lots of proposals! The call for papers is now closed and we are now in process of selection.

University of West London currently has an open call for proposals for PhD scholarships (stipend: £15,000 pa). uwl.ac.uk/academic-schools/f… How to apply: uwl.ac.uk/research/graduate-… Image/Photo/Literature/Film thinkers email: [email protected] and/or [email protected]