Schedule of Events
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
9am-5pm: Symposium Kick-off Workshop: Toy Camera Modern Tintype Workshop with Jill Enfield Sold Out!
Join us for this exciting day long exploration of modern tintypes and toy cameras with Jill Enfield! We’ll spend the first part of the day learning about tintypes and making plates in the darkroom. These plates, unlike the wet collodion tintype process, can be taken on location and used in the field far from a darkroom. Modern tintypes are very similar to the historic dry plate process; a short lived process introduced by Kodak in the late 1800s as a convenient alternative to wet plate photography. More here >>
Thursday, May 29, 2008
4-9pm: Symposium Opening Reception
Rangos Ballroom, 2nd Floor University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Check in from 4-7:00pm
The symposium officially begins at 5pm Thursday, May 29 with an informal work-sharing/portfolio review session. We have a large space on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University at which there will be tables for registered symposium attendees to spread out images, cameras, and other materials and equipment to share with other participants. This is a rare chance to see and discuss the exciting work you and your colleagues are making!
In addition to sharing your work and meeting other artists and photographers we’ll have quite a few vendors and manufacturers in attendance. They’ll each have a table at which they’ll be demonstrating their latest equipment and supplies and showing that they support explorations in alternative photography! Our friends from B&H Photo will be there with assorted goodies and symposium specials. We’ll be revealing the rest of our vendor roster over the coming weeks but it’s safe to say if they care about a heterogeneous future of photography they’ll be in attendance! Please note: This event is ONLY for registered symposium attendees. This was the most requested event of 2007. Don’t miss it!
Serendipity and Exquisite Manipulation
A Special Opening Reception Artists’ Talk with France Scully Osterman
Rangos Ballroom, 2nd Floor University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Time: 6:00pm
More than any other photographic process, wet-collodion enables artists to produce images that are completely hand-crafted, seducing them with painterly artifacts. In this talk France Scully Osterman will discuss the factors which influence and guide her work: process, lens, light, exposure and intent.
The artifacts inherent to collodion negatives are reminders that they are entirely hand-crafted. Within these artifacts lie distinct possibilities to contribute to the painterliness of the image. Collodion is to photography what watercolor is to painting -fast but requiring ‘exquisite manipulation’. Initially Osterman was drawn to the subtle artifacts of the process -as she was with painting- which serve as a distinctive signature of the artist…(read more >>)
Read more about France Scully Osterman >>
Friday, May 30, 2008
9am - 6pm: Lectures and round-table discussion
Check-in from 8:0am - 11:00am
McConomy Auditorium, 1st Floor University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
We’re excited to have our friends at the Center for the Arts in Society at CMU partner with us again this year to help bring together this day of lectures and discussion!
Friday Lecture Schedule
9:00 - 9:20 - Tom Persinger
9:20 - 10:00 - Jesseca Ferguson
10:00 - 10:40 - Ilan Wolff
10:40 - 11:20 - Martha Casanave
11:20-11:45 - Round Table Discussions
11:45 - 1:15 - LUNCH
1:15 - 1:45 - Group Portrait
1:50 - 2:30 - Robert Hirsch
2:30 - 3:10 - Jill Enfield
3:10 - 3:50 - Keith Taylor
3:50 - 4:30 - Jerry Spagnoli
4:30 - 5:00 - Round Table Discussions
5:00 - 5:15 - Closing Comments, questions, observations….
ACT 48 Credit will be available for the lectures and round-table event on Friday May 30. Contact us for details.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Workshops
Calotype Paper Negatives (Dry Process) w/ Alan Greene
Chrysotype and Cyanotype ‘Rex’ Workshop w/ Terry King
Daguerreotype Workshop with Mike Robinson
Gum Bichromate Printing w/ Scott McMahon
The Magic of the Photogram and Camera Obscura w/ Ilan Wolff (2 day)
Planning, Organizing, and Staging a Successful Exhibition w/ Jesseca Ferguson
It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process Two Day Workshop
w/ France Scully Osterman
Exhibitions
2-4:00pm: Opening Reception: Alternative Focus
Silver Eye Center for Photography
7-10:00pm: Opening Reception: The f295 Exhibition of Contemporary Alternative Photography
707 Penn Gallery: A Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Workshops
An Artistic Approach to Digital Negatives w/ Jill Enfield
Daguerreotype Workshop w/ Mike Robinson
Developed-Out Salt-Printing w/ Alan Greene
The Magic of the Photogram and Camera Obscura w/ Ilan Wolff (2 day)
The Rex Process: Platinum, Toning and In Camera w/ Terry King
It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process Two Day Workshop
w/ France Scully Osterman
9am-12pm: Lensless/alternative photography walk-about w/ Jo Babcock and Tom Persinger Registration opening soon!
Closing Reception
6-8:00pm: Informal Closing Reception
Location: TBA
*Please note: workshops are not included in the standard symposium registration each requires separate registration.
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