Dialogue Series
In this ongoing series of audio and video recordings, members of Critical Image Forum speak with artists, journalists, scholars, cultural producers and theorists about their work and research concerns; associated information and visual materials are available on episode pages. These dialogues were initiated during the spring of 2020, with participants connecting virtually in home and office studios.
Image: “Decolonial Aesthesis, Intuiting the Archive,” Sm Łoodm 'Nüüsm (Mique'l Dangeli) with Tania Willard. UBC Okanagan Indigenous Arts Intensive, 2023.
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EPISODE 1 – Marianne Nicolson: The photographic act as ceremony and witness
In this online conversation with Althea Thauberger, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw artist and activist Marianne Nicolson helps us understand how particular photographi
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EPISODE 2 – Paul Weinberg: Documentary photography in South Africa and democratizing the archive in the post Apartheid era
For this second episode of the Critical Research Forum Dialogue series, Daniela Perez Montelongo is in conversation with South African photographer Paul Weinberg. They discuss key issues pertaining to the role of photography in South Africa during Apartheid and in the post-Apartheid era. These…
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EPISODE 3 – Robert Del Tredici: Under the Mushroom Cloud
In this episode, through a far-reaching discussion of his illustration and photographic practice, and in dialogue with UBC professor emeritus John O’Brian, Robert Del Tredici touches on political, ethical and philosophical aspects of nuclear technologies and deployments. Through photographic…
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EPISODE 4 – Farah Nosh: Intimacy in Visual Storytelling, From Photojournalism to Portraiture
From her earliest work in conflict zones to her most recent project documenting fluent speakers of the Haida language in Haida Gwaii, Farah Nosh is known for her intimate, empathic approach to photojournalism and photographic portraiture. In this wide-ranging conversation initiated by UBC…
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EPISODE 5 – University Art Association of Canada & Global Photography, Critical Histories
As part of the University Art Association of Canada’s online conference, panel chairs Heather Diack (University of Miami) and Terri Weissman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) brought together art historians and artists committed to deepening the discourse of photography studies and…
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EPISODE 6 – The Imaginary Ear: Exploring the Conditions of Hearing though Sound Art
For this episode of the Critical Image Forum Dialogue Series, Tobias Ewé talks with Danish sound artist Sandra Boss about her practice-based research into mid-century German hearing machines, conceptions of hearing and how these shape the listening subject. The discussion takes its outset in…
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EPISODE 7– Groundless in the Archive: Ambient Immersiveness in Photography
In this expansive consideration of his use of photographic archives, Luis Jacob describes the process of “aesthetic mobilization” that reveals the mediating – and mediated – character of human experience. In this episode, CIF faculty member Christine Donofrio speaks with Toronto based…