Dear members,
We warmly remind you about the detailed programme for our upcoming Spectrum Day, on Saturday 21 August at ETH Bildarchiv (Zurich) who are kindly hosting and co-programming the event. The morning programme is reserved for Spectrum members while the afternoon talks are open to the public. Unless new measures force us to move online again, we look forward to welcoming you again in person on this occasion!
We also look forward to welcoming you online to our two upcoming Spectrum Lunches, with Alexandre Edelmann from Presence Switzerland, and Estelle Sohier from UNIGE (postponed from June).
For the Spectrum board,
Danaé Panchaud
President
10.00-10.30
Welcome
10.30
Präsentation von Nicole Graf, Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek (DE)
Präsentation des Bildarchivs der ETH-Bibliothek und einer Auswahl von aktuellen Projekten wie Crowdsourcing, Georeferenzierung, WikiProjekt ETH Profs oder Autotagging und Künstliche Intelligenz.
11.30
Roundtable zum Thema Digitale Archive mit Tabea Lurk (Mediathek der HGK FHNW), Elias Kreyenbühl (ZB-Lab der Zentralbibliothek Zürich) und Nicole Graf (Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek), moderiert von Teresa Gruber (Fotostiftung Schweiz) (DE)
Fotosammlungen verwalten immer mehr Bilddateien – seien dies digital-born Werke oder Retrodigitalisate. Archive und Bibliotheken haben mit noch vielfältigerem Material und grösseren Mengen zu tun. Nicht zuletzt die Frage nach der Langzeitarchivierung ist überall dringend. An welchem Punkt stehen die Institutionen heute? Was sind die unterschiedlichen Herausforderungen? Gibt es Strategien, an denen gemeinsam gearbeitet werden könnte?
12.30
Lunch im Dozentenfoyer
14.00
Artist Talk with Batia Suter and Danaé Panchaud (EN)
Presentation of the work of Swiss artist Batia Suter, followed by a discussion moderated by Danaé Panchaud.
15.00
Break
15.15
Rencontre avec David Dufresne (FR)
Présentation du film Un pays qui se tient sage du réalisateur français David Dufresne, suivi d’un discussion animée par Danaé Panchaud
16.15-17.30
Drinks (tbc)
Inscription mandatory until 10 August at spectrum@photography-in-switzerland.ch.
Tuesday 21 September 2021, 12:30–13:30
On Zoom
Reserved for Spectrum members
After an engaging talk with representatives from Pro Helvetia in September 2020, the members of Spectrum are invited again to debate the role of photography in Swiss culture and in the representation of Switzerland abroad, with Alexandre Edelmann, Head of Marketing and Campaigns of Presence Switzerland, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA. Presence Switzerland is responsible for promoting Switzerland’s image abroad and implements Switzerland's Strategy for Communication Abroad.
Members of Spectrum are again invited to submit their questions to spectrum@photography-in-switzerland.ch until 7 September 2021.
Inscription to the event is mandatory until 20 September 2021 at spectrum@photography-in-switzerland.ch.
Friday 22 October 2021, 12:30–13:30
On Zoom
Reserved for Spectrum members
Estelle Sohier an associate professor at UNIGE. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Naples Orientale. She has worked on the political use of photography during the colonial period and the history of Ethiopian royalty between the 1880s and the 1930s. She conducted research in France, Italy and Ethiopia before joining the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Geneva in January 2010.
At the crossroads of geography and cultural history, her work focuses on the uses of photography, the history of the gaze, and the notion of geographical imagination. For several years, she has been studying the work of the Geneva-based photographer and editor Fred Boissonnas, in particular his work on Swiss landscapes, Greece, Egypt and the Mediterranean, which formed the basis of the exhibition and publication Fred Boissonnas et la Méditerrannée at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève in 2020.
Registration is mandatory until Wednesday 20 October at spectrum@photography-in-switzerland.ch.