Analogue to Post Digital, BFX Conference, 2015

‘As contemporary still and moving images and their related practices sit in the interstices of the analogue and digital, this year the BFX conference invites participants to consider the trajectories of these movements as we engage in a discourse of the ‘post-digital’ in still and moving image. Embedded within these fields are a range of themes such as; memory and the archive, media archeology, hybridity, intermedia practices, folksonomies and virtual curatorship, new pedagogies and education design.’ BFX. 2015

I’m looking forward to presenting a recent paper at the BFX Conference this September, which Dr Sarah Sparke, CMIR, UWE (Centre for Moving Image Research, University of the West of England) and I have co-written this autumn.

Entitled ‘Looking back to go Forwards: tensions and missed opportunities. A case-study of continuities and breaks in practice and technologies’ the paper examines the ways in which current curatorial practice and pricing mechanisms may be putting a brake on the uptake of contemporary digital techniques being used, and commodified, both in the commercial gallery sector, and the wider arts community.