UTS PSM

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.

“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.

Kohei Yoshiyuki, Untitled 1971

PSM staff member Cherine Fahd will participate in the upcoming exhibition, “In camera and in public” at the CCP in Melbourne. The exhibition opens on 15 September at 6pm.

In addition, Cherine will be giving a talk on 17 September at noon for those in Melbourne.

Please join us Wednesday for an informal talk with David Burns (Director of Photography and Situated Media), Lawrence Wallen (Head of School, Design), Sam Spurr (Director of Interior and Spatial Design) and Thea Brejzek about a series of exhibitions recently curated in Prague for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.

Prague Quadrennial Discussion
Wednesday, August 17th, 5:30pm
702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo
DAB Level 4 Courtyard

On Saturday April 9, the Art Gallery of New South Wales will host the symposium “Subject and object in 21st century photography” as part of their current exhibition, “Photography and place”.

Details and registration here.