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Kerstin Hacker is a documentary photographer and Head of Photography at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK.

Kerstin Hacker
Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30pm
Level 3, Room 56
702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo

This event is free and open to the public, but seating will be limited. Bookings will not be accepted and PSM students will be given priority. For full details of the 2011 PSM Image Studies Lecture Series, please visit:
http://utspsm.com/blog/psm-lectures

Six days until Autumn semester begins! To celebrate, we’re happy to announce the lineup for the 2012 PSM Image Studies Lecture Series. As always, the lectures are free and open to the public, so we hope to see you there.

This year we’re proud to collaborate with Kaldor Public Art Projects on a series of events surrounding the Project 25: ‘The Dailies’ by Thomas Demand. Mr Demand’s lecture and Sylvia Lavin’s the following day will take place at the Domain Theatre at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

In addition, we are sponsoring two of the Kaldor “Parlour” events. Adam Jasper and Andrew Benjamin will each host a roundtable discussion at parlour events happening on April 5 and April 19, respectively. More info on those talks soon.

For a full list of events, please visit the Image Studies Lecture Series page.

Projects from second year Bachelor of Photography and Situated Media and Bachelor of Sound and Music students will be exhibited  in a show titled “Socket Props”.

“Socket Props”
Tuesday, November 8th, 6-8pm
Mungo’s Mill
22 Edward Street, Summer Hill

PSM director David Burns (me) and Sam Spurr, director of Interior and Spatial Design at UTS, will be presenting at Pecha Kucha tonight in Hyde Park (Sydney).

Details here.

Sessional staff member Pedro Ramos will be in two exhibitions later this month, one in Byron Bay and one in Milan.

In Italy, details for the Milan show here.

The New York Times covers a recent photo shoot by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Though under close surveillance in Beijing, Mr. Ai closely monitored and art directed the shoot remotely via Skype and other standard technologies.

Full article.

We have just advertised an open position in the Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media. Full details here:

http://www.jobs.uts.edu.au/job/job_details.cfm?id=672232&from

Spread the word!

“I have captured a shadow!”: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography

In this heavily illustrated lecture, Larry Schaaf will draw on the extensive surviving archives of William Henry Fox Talbot’s original photographs and manuscripts to demonstrate that beyond the act of invention, Talbot learned from what he invented and became the first artist to be trained by photography.

Professor Schaaf is the founder and Director of The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot (http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk) which has mounted full searchable transcriptions of more than 10,000 of Talbot’s letters online. Schaaf is currently in Australia under a grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, examining archives related to British photography that have migrated along with the people.

Professor Larry J Schaaf
Thursday, September 22nd, 6:00pm
Law School Foyer, Eastern Avenue, the University of Sydney
Free and open to the public
Directions

This lecture is co-presented with the University of Sydney Power Institute.

Prudence Murphy, "Rhyl #1", 2011

PSM Casual Academics Cherine Fahd and Prudence Murphy have been shortlisted for the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. The exhibition opens 15 September and runs until 16 October 2011 at Monash Gallery of Art.

Prudence also had some artworks published in the latest Ampersand Magazine – Issue 4 ‘From the heart of the forest to the edge of the road’. The new issue will launch on 20 September at the State Library of NSW, 5-8pm.