Session 1: “From Photography to Synthography”
Moderator: Shaiana Po, Research assistant at SCM, CityUHK
Keynote: Andreas Müller-Pohle: From Niépce to Robots: Datagraphy as Artistic Practice
XUANYANG Huang: Synthetic Punktum: The De/Reconstruction of the Personal Memory
Prof. Tamas Waliczky: Imaginary cameras
Chan Hoi Tat: Re-imagiming Cyanotype: From Representational Image to Material Surface

Session 2: “Image and Archive”
Moderator: LI Jiaqi, PhD candidate, SCM, CityUHK
Keynote: Prof. Gwenola Wagon: From Anarchives to Speculative Fictions
Dr. LAI Chiu-han Linda: Images as Objectile
Dr. Vennes CHENG: Archive as Detour: Rethinking and Remapping Relationships Between Human, Machine, and Technology in Arts

Session 3 “The faithful image”
Moderator: Dr. Ann Mak, Independent Curator, Writer and Researcher, Hong Kong
Keynote: Jake SORIANO (deputy head of digital investigation for Asia AFP): How digital investigation and photojournalism work together to combat harmful AI-powered falsehoods
May James (photojournalist)
Phil Shek (photographer and lecturer at SCM)
Prof. LAM Miu Ling: Erased Murmurs