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SPE-NE Photography Conference

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Posted by: Society for Photographic Education
Deadline: Fri, June 1st, 2018

Tipping Point

Global / Local / Personal

SUNY New Paltz - New Paltz, NY   |   October 06 - October 07, 2018

 

Proposals are now being acepted with the theme of Tipping Points, the deadline is June 1, 2018 at 11:59pm (EST).

The world is facing unprecedented change on multiple fronts -- environmental, technological, sociological, psychological, and political. While historically things are always in flux, the exponential acceleration of so many factors is new to our age, as is the concept of humans propelling irreversible tipping points at a global scale. The world is facing unprecedented change on multiple fronts – environmental, technological, sociological, psychological and political.  While historically things are always in flux, the exponential acceleration of so many factors is new to our age, as is the concept of humans propelling irreversible tipping points at a global scale.

The 2018 SPE-NE Chapter Conference addresses the ways in which artists are responding to this rapid acceleration at global, local, and internal levels through photography and related media, and how the photographic medium itself might be implicated in these changes.

Tipping point (climatology), a point when global climate changes from one stable state to another stable state. Tipping point (physics), the point at which an object is displaced from a state of stable equilibrium into a new equilibrium state that is qualitatively dissimilar from the first. Tipping point (sociology), the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common. Tipping point (systems theory), signifies a critical point after which the system shifts radically and potentially irreversibly into a different equilibrium state.

Click here to submit a proposal. Please have the following information prepared:

1. Your name
2. Category to which you are submitting (from one of the following six options):

Academic Practicum Workshop (45 min) a lecture, demonstration, or panel that addresses pedagogy. Lecture (30 min) a presentation on an historical topic, theory, or another artist’s work. Panel (60 min) a group led by a moderator to discuss a chosen topic. Imagemaker (30 min) a presentation of the artist’s own work. Imagemaker PechaKucha Presentation (6 min 40sec) a timed presentation of 20 slides of the artist’s own work. What is a PechaKucha presentation? Click here to find out more! Student PechaKucha Presentation (6 min 40sec) a timed presentation of 20 slides of the artist’s own work.

3. Title of your presentation proposal.

4. A description of your presentation, no longer than 300 words.

5. If submitting an Imagemaker or PechaKucha Series, 10 supporting images saved as: JPEG, sRGB Color, max quality, 1200px long dimension, Name your jpg’s this way: lastname_## (example: johnson_01.jpg).

The submission deadline of June 1, 2018 (EST) is final. Late or incomplete proposals will not be accepted. Selected presenters register for the conference at a 50% discounted rate. Email northeast@spenational.org with any questions about the conference or presentation proposals.

We encourage (but do not require) that proposed topics address the theme of the conference, Tipping Points: Global / Local / Personal. You may submit more than one proposal if you wish to submit to more than one presentation category.

                Information about the 2018 SPE Northeast Juried Exhibition will be available soon! Stay tuned!   

Everyone, even non-members, is encouraged to apply, but you must show proof of membership when submitting the contract for accepted proposals.

Thank you!  We look forward to seeing you in New Paltz in October!

 

Posted on Mon, May 7th, 2018
Expires on Fri, June 1st, 2018

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