Programme
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Keynote speakers’ abstracts can be found here.
Abstracts
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DAY 1
Parallel Session 1 – Images Bound/Unbound
Amanda Wasielewski
Light in the Distance: Re-evaluating the Photograph as Index after AI
Tom Viaene
Photography as relational placeholding: care, recurrence, and common world
Tuomo Rainio
Volumetric light – photography based light rendering technique as artistic tool
Parallel Session 2 – Nature, Communities, and Ecological Images
David Flood
Image-making with the Landscape: Between Representation and Reification
Anne Hege Simonsen and Jørgen Alnæs
595 shades of grey: “The big picture” of nature loss in Norway
Karin Wagner
Imagined shoreline communities – a continent of litter picking activists
Parallel Session 3 – Performative Practices and Decolonial Sites
Becky Beamer
Attuning to Place: Performative Documentary Practice Against the Fungibility of Images
Andrea Stultiens
Making Space, Expanding Frames, Multiplying Selves
Parallel Session 4 – Conflict, Dispossession, and Memory
Sandra Lábová and Barbora Souckova
Synthetic Gaze: AI as a Tool of Constructed Spaces in Visual Journalism
Maria Nilsson
Images as placeholders in contested visualizations of deportation raids in Chicago
Parallel Session 5 – Latent Landscapes
Zuzana Jarolímková
Photographs as Memory Anchors among Czech Photojournalists Covering the Ukraine War
Olja Triaška Stefanović
Quiet Fronts: Photographic Placeholders and Latent Geographies of the Cold War
Paloma Rodera
Parallel Session 6 – Indexicality, Narrative, and Abstraction
Clare Bottomley
What Do Photographs Really Want?
Chris Jones
A photograph is only ever about itself: ontological abstraction in the technical image
Sara Benaglia
From Bitumen to Silicon: How Photographic Systems Reshape the Geography of the Visible
DAY 2
Parallel Session 7 – Systems of Seeing
Yue Hu
Humanscape’ as a Placeholder: A Geopoetic Diagnosis of Reclaimed Landscapes
Helena Gonzales Lindberg and Aase Kristine Lundberg
Tuula Närhinen
Optical Sight-Seeing – Enacting Space by Stereoscopic and Lenticular Displays
Maria-Carolina Cambre
Performative De-coloniality: The case of the Balot NFT
Parallel Session 8 – Traces of Absence
Jakub Pavlík
Michiel De Cleene
Dorota Luczak
Reimagining Lost Territories: The Sputnik Photos Archive
Francesco Giarrusso
The Planetary Placeholder: VSOP-HALCA and the Emergence of Distributed Images
Parallel Session 9 – Temporal Archives
Jana Müller
Re-Placeholders: Photographic Evidence, Archival Practice, and Artistic Inquiry
Tomáš Pacovský
Christos Panagiotou
Places in Time: Chrono[topo]graphies: Limassol 17[9]00
Chantal Riekel
The man with many names: re-imagining a conflictual memory
Parallel Session 10 – Imagination and the Everyday
Marianna Michałowska
What does the photo show? Between pixels and photo grain
Jenni Niemelä-Nyrhinen
Holding place for utopian imaginaries
Hanna Timonen
Parallel Session 11 – Photography, Exile, Protest, and Displacement
Cathrine Bublatzky
Placeholders in Exile: Memory, Resistance, and the Social Lives of Iranian Photographs as Amanat
Shadman Shahid
Mia Seppälä
Alt Text, Ekphrasis, and the Placeholder Nature in the Interpretation of Art Images
Parallel Session 12 – Scientific Visualization and Proxy Imagery
Kerstin Hamilton
Choreographies of Science: Scientific Images as Placeholders
Risk Hazekamp and Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy
Being in the Dark – The Politics and Poetics of Holding Place through Perforation
Paul Heinicker and Winfried Gerling
Proxy Borders and the Making of Latent Spaces
DAY 3
Parallel Session 13 – Sensory Geographies
Stefan Maier
Fara Martia Manuel
Louise Wolthers and Nina Mangalanayagam
Forest Image-Worlds: Rethinking Nature Photography through Spatial and Temporal Multiplicities
Arden Surdam
Parallel Session 16 – Compression, Memory, and the Synaesthetic Image
Bethany Berard
Redundancy as Placeholder: Compressing Photographic Practice and the Production of Recognizable Forms
Olga Krashenko
Synaesthetic Placeholders: Multidimensional Spaces in Photography and Music
Erik Friis Reitan
Parallel Session 15 – Algorithmic Bodies
Liv Hausken
Photography,* or the missing asterisk
Judith van Ijken
The Situative Portrait as Artistic Resistance to Physiognomic AI
Franziska Bork-Petersen and Louise Yung Nielsen
AI-Generated Bodies Between Proxy and Presence
Parallel Session 16 – Images and (Social) Networks
Will Boase
Who’s in Charge Here? Creativity and control on the social web
Tobias Schmid
Jakob Ganslmeier
Visual Dogwhistles in Social Media Narratives
Parallel Session 17 – Utopias, Sustainability, and Control
Karin Bareman
Susanne Klein
We see only what we know: The photograph as a placeholder for an image
Maija Savolainen
Photographic fiction as a tool for regenerative sustainability thinking
Eirini Sourgiadaki
A SIMPLE GUIDE TO TELEPORTATION & TRANSFORMATION: portals, containers, magical objects
Parallel Session 18 – Imaginary Communities
Terje Lindblom
Pekka Nikrus
Partial Substitutes for our World of Experience: Photographs as models in a systemic sense
Ayelet Zohar