SHIFTS

Welcome to Jyväskylä - Spend Three Days with Photography!

SHIFTS International Photography Conference is second of the three conferences organised during Culture 2000/Changing Faces EU-project. This three-day conference will take place in Finland, in the city of Jyväskylä, Laajavuori recreational area October 19th to 22nd, 2006. Pho-tographers, academics, art managers, curators, students, all interested in international photographic art and research are warmly invited to participate. The programme of the conference will be built around two main topics dealing the overall concept of work: Changes in DOCUMENTARISTIC AESTHETICS and THE WAYS PHOTOGRAPHIC ART AND MEDIA INTERPRET IDENTITIES and developments in the DIGITAL ARCHIVING of images.

Conference programme includes 16 keynotes; 7 academics and 9 artist presentations. Keynote speakers and their working tittles are as follows:

Mr. ROGER F BALLEN, Photographer, South-Africa, "Shadow Chambers"
Mr. LUIGI GARIGLIO, Photographer, Italy, 2006 IPRN residence, "2 a.m."
Mr. MARTIN LISTER, Professor, School of Cultural Studies, UWE, Bristol, UK, "Can we con-struct a canon for art in a 'post-industrial' age?"
Mr. JAN-ERIK LUNDSTRÖM, Historian, Theorist, Critic of Photography and Director of Bild Museet, Umeå Universitet, Sweden, "After the Fact: Reconceptualizing documentary, reposi-tioning photography"
Mr. TUOMO MANNINEN, Photographer, Finland, 2006 IPRN residence France, "Work - Paris"
Ms. KATE MELLOR, Photographer, UK, 2004 IPRN residence, "Poprad"
Mr. PEDRO MEYER, Photographer, editor ZoneZero.com, "If you liked documentary work, you are going to love digital images"
Mr. DAG PETERSSON, PhD, the Royal Danish Library, Denmark, "Jacob Riis and the Making of the Other Half"
Mr. JORMA PURANEN, Photographer, Finland, "Imaginary Home Coming (and after)"
Ms. RIIITTA RAATIKAINEN, Curator and Journalist, Finland, "O Finland! - Project on Finnish Documentary Photography"
Mrs. ÆSASA SIGURJONSDOTTIR, Curator, Iceland, "A Strange Place Called Nowhere"
Mr. JUSTIN WINKLER, PD Dr. phil. habil., University Basel, Switzerland, "Objects are closer than they appear: Changing views and attitudes to changing spaces"
Ms. LIZ WELLS, Curator and Art Critic on Photography, UK, "Image Memory Identity"

The conference programme also includes:

"Portfolio street" - artists showing their work
1 & 2 Plenum (all together 10 discussions)
3 group discussions
"Delegation rooms" - room reservations for groups to negotiate
2 photography exhibitions

About 150 delegates are expected to arrive in Jyväskylä for the conference. Registering and further information in our web pages http://www.theiprn.org/ and from

Mr. Kimmo Lehtonen, Conference Director, klehtone@cc.jyu.fi, +358 50 40 30 617
Ms. Heidi Taskinen, Conference producer, hetaskin@cc.jyu.fi, +358 50 40 30 617
Ms. Nina Willman, Conference Secretary, nianwill@cc.jyu.fi, 358 44 93 07 188

Changing Faces Photography exhibition in Jyväskylä October 20th -November 26th 2006: Renja Leino, Helen Sear and Jari Silomäki

During the conference, a photography exhibition will be opened, showing the work of project's residence artists from and to Finland so far. The Centre for Creative Photography hosted Brit-tish Helen Sear in Autumn 2005, while Finnish Renja Leino was sent to Czech Republic, Univer-sity of Usti Nad Labdem, and Finnish Jari Silomäki to England, hosted by FotoNet, Oxford.

Changing Faces

Changing Faces is a project of art photography and research, funded by EU, Culture 2000. The purpose of Changing Faces project is to use photographic means to explore the cultural diversity in Europe and to encourage the Euro-peans to study their cultural heritage. Project creates a network of European Universities, archives and galleries and an open central archive where contemporary heritage of expanding Europe is stored.

Between years 2005 and 2007 this three year project includes 18 Photography Fellowship residences, three European photography exhibitions, three publications and three conferences. The exhibitions of 18 residence artists are also circulationg widely in Europe during the three years.

Programme includes five partner countries:

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Saksa
Dom Fotografie, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
University of Sunderland, UK

Partners in Finland are University of Jyväskylä, The Centre for Creative Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photog-raphy. The project has been funded by Ministry of Education, Arts Council of Finland, City of Jyväskylä and The Arts Council of Central Finland.