Light Matter | Ellen Dahl

LIGHT MATTER

Curated by Ellen Dahl & Yvette Hamilton

Artists: Dean Cross, Ellen Dahl, Lucas Davidson, Yvette Hamilton, Elena Papanikolakis, Ioulia Terizis, Garry Trinh, Amanda Williams

Australian Centre for Photography

Sydney August - October 2019

LIGHT MATTER symposium held at University of Technology Sydney 24 August 2019

The current democratisation of image-making, where everyone is a photographer, has renewed discussions on artistic authorship and intensified the creative possibilities of lens-based practice. Light Matter considers this contemporary dynamic and in their innovative approaches to process and materiality — analogue, digital, hybrid or camera-less — the artists in this exhibition affirm that centrality of ‘the author’ is definitely not dead.

Light Matter

Australian Centre for Photography

Light Matter

Australian Centre for Photograhy

Light Matter

Australian Centre for Photography

Light Matter

Australian Centre for Photography

LIGHT MATTER: a symposium on contemporary photographic art practice.

UTS (Sydney) Saturday, 24 August 2019.

This forum brought together artists, curators and academics to discuss the nuances of contemporary lens-based practice in Australia. Over the day a series of presentations and panels considered issues from authorship and identity to politics and non-human vision in the post-photographic era. There was also a focus on innovative approaches to creative process and materiality, including analogue, digital, hybrid and camera-less formats.

Speakers: Dr Donna West Brett (University of Sydney); Dr Cherine Fahd (University of Technology, Sydney); Yvette Hamilton; Dr Melissa Miles (Monash University); Dr Sara Oscar

(University of Technology, Sydney); and Dr Kate Warren (Australian National University).

Light Matter Symposium Artist Talk

University of Technology Sydney. 24 August 2019

Photo: Valentina Schulte