Barbara Jo Revelle is a photographer, film/video maker, installation and public artist.  She is a Professor and the Director of the Photography Area at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she served as Director of the School of Art and Art History from 1996-2000.  She was Director of the Photography and Electronic Media Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for 13 years prior to moving to Florida. 

Revelle has taught art making in many places around the country for more than 30 years, including San Francisco Art Institute, UCLA, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Arizona State University and N.Y. State University College in Buffalo.  Revelle has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 130 group and 35 solo shows including shows in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Japan, Mexico, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and England. Revelle’s work is owned by 41 public collections here and abroad including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, France, the Eikoh Hosoe Collection, Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Her work has received critical attention in Art Forum, Z Magazine, Ten/8, Art Week, Afterimage, the New Art Examiner, Rhizome, Leonardo, and many other journals, as well as many important books including Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, published by Routledge with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Revelle has been the recipient of 31 grants and fellowships including a major NEA.  In 1991 she completed a two-city block long photo-based, computer generated tile mural – “A People’s History of Colorado”, one of the largest public art murals in the world.  Since that time she has completed five other major photo-based public art projects around the country.

Mat Collishaw (b. 1966) is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally.

Recent solo exhibitions include Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2015), In Camera, Library of Birmingham (2015), Black Mirror, Galleria Borghese, Rome (2014), This Is Not An Exit, Blain|Southern, London (2013), Bass Museum of Art, Florida (2013); Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Bari (2013); Mat Collishaw: Afterimage, Arter, Istanbul (2013) and Magic Lantern at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2010).

For the conference Mat will be speaking about his forthcoming crowd-funded exhibition “Thresholds VR”, where he will be creating a virtual reality experience which will take participants back to the first major exhibition of photography in 1839.

Image credit: David Brow

Katrina will present and reveal the remarkable insights from the past year since launching The Photographers’ Gallery sector leading and provocative Unthinking Programme. Shortlisted for ICP Infinity awards 2017.

Katrina Sluis is an educator, writer and researcher who was appointed the first Curator of Digital Programmes at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 2012. Her exhibition projects have broadly addressed photography’s diffusion in computational culture, from the politics and aesthetics of cat photography to CGI and synthetic imaging; she has also commissioned new work by artists James Bridle, Erica Scourti and Alan Warburton. Katrina combines her curatorial role with the post of Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University where she has taught photography and digital media since 2005. Prior to this, she lectured in Photomedia at the University of New South Wales and the Sydney Gallery School and worked in systems administration.

With an Honours degree in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and a Masters of Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London, she is presently undertaking her PhD at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. Her writing has appeared in Photographies, Philosophy of Photography, Aperture, Photoworks, Source, ArteEast and she has given recent talks on art, media and technology at Whitechapel Gallery, Tate, FOAM, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ICA, Sotheby’s Institute and Parsons School of Design.

Louise is a Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury for the practice-led side of photography and design, and has worked across all forms of academic and educational publishing on a variety of subjects. Bloomsbury is an award-winning international publisher, with a broad range of academic books in the visual arts.

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With a particular focus on educational and academic publishing, you’ll hear what a publisher is really looking for, how they make decisions on viability of projects and how to make your idea stand out.

Jonny studied at Chelsea College of Art (BA, 2008) and Royal College of Art (MA 2011) in London. Awards include Saatchi Gallery UK/raine Finalist, a 2014 Paul Huf nomination (Brett Rogers), Foam Talent 2014, the 2011 Conran Award for Fine Art, a Lumi Honorary Art Award (2011), Saatchi New Sensations 2011 Winner, The Catlin Prize finalist 2012, and a NESTA Creative Sparks Award.

Solo exhibitions include Photoforum Pasquart Photography Museum in Switzerland 2017, N Contemporary, hosted at MC2 Gallery in Milan 2015, Marie-Laure Fleisch in Rome 2015, Julie Meneret in New York City 2014, Simon Oldfield Gallery in London 2013, FaMa Gallery in Verona 2012, and White Project in Paris 2012.

Group shows include Saatchi Gallery, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, Jerwood Space and Photographers’ Gallery in London, L’Atelier Néerlandais in Paris, Centre Photographique in Normandy, The Marta Herford Museum in Germany, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Stilll Gallery and Galerie d’YS in Belgium and East Wing Gallery in Dubai.

Work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, Arte, Aesthetica Magazine, Elephant Magazine, La Stampa and national newspapers of France, South Korea and The Netherlands, and documentaries of the work have been shown on Channel 4, Sky TV and French and German cable TV. Jonny continues to live and work in London.

Duncan Forbes is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London. He was previously Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur and Senior Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Recent exhibitions and publications include Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Japanese Photography 1960–1975, (2016); Beastly/Tierisch, (2015); Manifeste! Eine andere Geschichte der Fotografie, (2014); and Edith Tudor-Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny, (2013). He is based between Los Angeles and London.
 
Title:
Takuma Nakahira’s Circulation: Date, Place, Events: from the Optical to the Operative Unconscious
 
Abstract:
In 1971, the Japanese photographer, Takuma Nakahira, arrived in Paris to install Circulation: Date, Place, Events at the city’s Seventh Biennale of contemporary art. Lasting little more than seven days, it would prove to be a turbulent intervention. Nakahira confronted the society of the spectacle on its own streets, forging a radical re-ordering of the image of Paris. This lecture accounts for the drama of the event within the context of Nakahira’s innovative image politics. It suggests that Circulation forms a vital photo-historical genealogy of today’s digital present.
 
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Takuma Nakahira, Circulation: Date, Place, Events, 1971, installation view, copyright Takuma Nakahira.