Past Event: Symposium— From Darkroom to Data: New Methods for Exploring the Material History of Photography
DARKROOM TO DATA: New Methods for Exploring the Material History of Photography was a symposium held on August 12, 2024 and hosted by the Lens Media Lab that featured the lab’s research into the material history of black and white photography and provided a forum for our principal collaborations, including contributions from colleagues at the Center for Creative Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The theme of this work was “seeing at scale” through the creation and interpretation of datasets that surface patterns latent in photograph collections. These patterns inform our thinking of preservation, artistic intention, regional practices, and the influence of materials and methods shared by photographers across time.
The symposium attracted over 175 attendess, among them artists, art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, collectors, curators, dealers and others interested in data science and data visualization applied to the study of cultural material.
Read the Symposium abstract.
Videos of the Symposium are Available Online
Discover or revisit presentations from the symposium held on August 12, 2024.