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. Tobias Klein, Associate Dean (External Engagement and Internationalisation), 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 - Wobik Wong: Exploration during the Past Six Years
- Chan Hoi Tat:
Re-imagining 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):
I Dance With It — Seeing, Understanding and Being - Phil Shek (photographer and lecturer at SCM):
The Decisive Moment Revisited - Prof. LAM Miu Ling:
The Latent Archive: Erased Murmurs and Infrared Imaging - Panel discussion
- Closing remarks