PhotographyDigitalPainting symposium

The "PhotographyDigitalPainting" symposium was a one-day research event held at the QUAD Arts Centre Derby UK, on the 23rd October 2019 that continued the investigations begun with "PaintingDigitalPhotography" into how artists and theorists currently engage with the interrelationships of photography, the digital and painting. The first conference revealed the breadth and depth of work and analysis being undertaken in this area, from John Hilliard’s photographic practice referencing a painterly vocabulary, to the digital work of Gerhard Richter. As continuous advancements in digital technology radicalizes, repositions, and re-defines traditional mediums, it is evident that the vast and rapidly expanding range of interconnected practices in this field require much further explication.

This second event therefore aimed to look further into these connections by asking how photography, the digital and painting are synthesized in contemporary art practices and what theories are being developed to support this. In what ways do these mediums inflect/infect one another, what does this fusion tell us about their discrete natures, and what new forms are created through this combination?

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