Symposium Snapshots of Photographic Theory
14th, 15th and 16th of May
Aula Magna of the Law Faculty, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona
Avinguda de Catalunya, 35
43003 Tarragona
Project management: Pedro Vicente Mullor, visiting professor of photographic theory at UCA University, England, and codirector of the Postgraduate course in Photography at Elisava School in Barcelona.
Organised by: SCAN in collaboration with Rovira i Virgili University.
Production and Coordination: Jordi Nicolau, SCAN production team.
URV Coordination: José Carlos Suárez, URV professor and director of the URV Aula de Cinema
The SCAN Symposium is a cycle of conferences and round tables that, titled Snapshots of Photographic Theory, for three days, will analyse the essence of photography and its theory. The sessions, which form a part of the SCAN photographic festival, will take place in Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
The SCAN Symposium is directed by Pedro Vicente Mullor, visiting professor of photographic theory from UCA University, Farnham (England), and codirector of the Postgraduate course in Photography at the Elisava School in Barcelona. The Symposium puts forward the premise that, despite the fact that in this day and age the practice of photography is very extensive, and we are living in a moment in which we are saturated with images, we probably are still very far away from knowing what exactly photography is. The difficulty in defining and formulating a theory comes from the very flexibility, defencelessness, instability and permeability of photography itself, owing to it hybrid nature and its constant motion.
Titled Snapshots of Photographic Theory, the Symposium hopes to provide a framework for debate which allows the exploration of the state, uses, consumption and future of photography and its theory. At the same time it hopes to explore contemporary thought by researching new ways of understanding photography and its relationship with the world and, by the same token, our relationship with it. Read more...
If you are interested in the Symposium, you can sign up at inscripcions@scan.cat. Students can ask for further information and sign up at the Department of History and Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Rovira i Virgili University (Avinguda de Catalunya, 35), by telephone (977 559 595) or email guillermina.rubio@urv.cat. Attendance at the Symposium is equivalent to 2 free credits.