9:30-10:00am Registration
10:00-10:30am Introductions and Welcome by:
Mr Oliver Bräuner, German Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong
Ms. Johanna Bouyé, Consul for Education, Science and Culture Consulate General of France in Hong Kong
Prof. Espen Aarseth, Dean of the School of Creative Media, SCM, CityUHK
10:30am-12:45pm
Session 1: “From Photography to Synthography”
Moderated by 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 - Panel discussion
1:30-3:45pm
Session 2: “Image and Archive”
Moderated by 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 - Panel discussion
4:15-6:15pm
Session 3 “The faithful image”
Moderated by 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):
Title tbc - Phil Shek (photographer and lecturer at SCM):
Title tbc - Prof. LAM Miu Ling:
Erased Murmurs - Panel discussion
- Closing remarks