Imaging Futures Lab
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Generator: Imaging Futures Symposium
Thursday 6 May 2021
10.00–3.30PM
Online via Microsoft Teams
Full schedule (RMIT School of Art Portal)
Event details (RMIT School of Art)
The Imaging Futures Lab at RMIT University presents a symposium on expanded photography and the future of the image. Involving academics, post graduate students and industry professionals, this one day symposium seeks to explore and critique new directions in the creative application of photography.
In the context of ubiquitous photography, machine learning, computational imaging and mixed reality, new possibilities exist for how photographic imaging is being used and critiqued in society.
The Generator 2021 symposium seeks to provide a platform for artists, photographers, academics and industry to critique and generate shared encounters, experiences and creative outcomes.
Topics and provocations for the symposium include but are not limited to the following:
Creative applications for new imaging technologies, including virtual/augmented and the design of mixed realities
The social impact and effects of imaging technologies, including surveillance and facial recognition, privacy, territories and geomapping, gender identification, and health
Ubiquitous computing including practical applications and theoretical insights
Presented through a series of discussions situated within contemporary photography and creative practices, the symposium aims to explore new ways of working with photography, and the complex social and cultural implications of emerging technological applications in the field of imaging futures.
Banner image credit: screenshot of Bowen Street webXR online point cloud created by Dr Alison Bennett and Dr Yazid Ninsalam