2018 World Picture Conference

John David Rhodes (Chair)

Veronica Fitzpatrick

Cornell University

The Same in the Dark: Resemblance, Desire, The Bachelor 

Ian James

Downing College, Cambridge

Reproduction between Nature and Culture

Kyle Stevens

Downing College, Cambridge

Reproduction between Nature and Culture

Kris Beaghton (Chair)

Kay Dickinson

Concordia University

Reproducing Supply Chain Cinema: Post-Industrial Light and Magic

Seb Franklin and Amy De’Ath

King’s College London

Reproduction, or the Promise of Abstraction

Harry Warwick

University of Southhampton

Enclosure and Reproduction in Ridley Scott’s Alien

Carleigh Morgan (Chair)

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson

Newnham College, Cambridge

Colour Reproductions: Technicolor’s “Chinese Copy” 

Aaron Su

Columbia University

Reproduction in the Hands of the State; or, Permutations of Digitality in China

Brian Price (Chair)

Patrick Marshall

University of Toronto

From One to an Other

Martin Blumenthal-Barby

Rice University

The Enigma of Judgment:  Arendt and Kant 

Luis Recoder

Independent Scholar

Adorno’s Arcades Orthodoxy

Kay Dickinson (Chair)

Mariam Karim

University of Toronto

Saudi Women in Digital  Protest: An Example from Arab Feminisms 

Vid Simoniti

University of Liverpool

Dadaist Strategies in Digital Art  and in Alt-Right

Carol Mason

University of Kentucky

Natalia Cecire (Chair)

Jennifer Pranolo

Amherst College

Image Search

Glyn Davis

University of Edinburgh

Cruising Haunts

Cassandra X. Guan

Brown University

The Garden of Live Flowers: Natural Images and Their Technical Reproduction

Tiziana Terranova

Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Reproducing (Re)production? From the Social Factory to the Social Network’ introduced by Meghan Sutherland

Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (Chair)

Laurence Kent

King’s College London

Indigesture: Traumatic Reproduction in Bruce Conner’s Crossroads (1976) 

Chelsey Crawford

North Central College

Borrowing, Reproduction, Found Footage

Carrie Reese

University of Toronto

Synthesis, Reproduction, and Supplementary Montage in Intermedia

Seb Franklin (Chair)

Rafael Lubner

King’s College London

On ‘the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence’: Form, History and Social Reproduction in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

Jake Soule

Duke University

Historicizing Infrastructure Space in Colston Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

Martin Crowley

Queens’ College, Cambridge

Catherine Malabou’s Accidental Agency

Vid Simoniti (Chair)

Elena Gorfinkel

King’s College London

Somnolence’s Labours

Ivone Margulies

Hunters College, CUNY

Casting relatives: in person reenactment

Gareth Farmer

University of Bedfordshire

Alien Labour: The Work of Writing in an Age of Maniacal Consumption

Laura McMahon (Chair)

Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire

University of Sussex

Notes on the Mycological Turn 

Matthew I. Thompson

University of Toronto

Human Natural Resources and Digital Environmentalism

Kenneth White

Binghampton University

Phantoms: Robert Smithson, Lynda Benglis, and the Hyperventilation Syndrome circa 1970

Soyoung Yoon

The New School

Flat Fixes: Minimalism in the Age of Austerity

Christien Garcia (Chair)

Lucy Bollington

UCL

Refracting Necropower: Reproductive Displacements in Recent Mexican Documentary Film

Brian Price

University of Toronto

Terrorism and the Reproducibility of Obligation

Fabienne Rachmadiev

University of Amsterdam

What Future? Reproduction as life, not production in contemporary art from former Soviet countries

Sam Solomon (Chair)

Ruochen Bo

University of Toronto

Fragility of Understanding: Mediation, Intersubjectivity and Creation in Edward Yang’s The Terrorizers

Carleigh Morgan

Trinity College, Cambridge

Miraculous Error: The Informatics of Pregnancy in Blade Runner 2049

Fan Wu

University of Toronto

Hypno-Opera III: Reproduction Interrupted

Elena Gorfinkel (Chair)

Alice Blackhurst

King’s College, Cambridge

No Sex Last Night: Luxury and Non Reproductive Eros

Kris Beaghton

Clare College, Cambridge

‘A process of self-creation’: parthenogenesis and queer creative production

Hannah Goodwin

Clare College, Cambridge

‘A process of self-creation’: parthenogenesis and queer creative production

Anne Boyer

Clare College, Cambridge

‘A process of self-creation’: parthenogenesis and queer creative production