Ghost Town: film, photograph, memory and the present

Friday October 8, 10am-5pm,
AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney, Bridge St Sydney

A one day symposium at which writers, researchers, historians and
filmmakers will discuss and explore some of the potent attractions and
pointed anxieties surrounding the uses of archive film and photographs.

A keynote address will be given by writer Luc Sante, whose Low Life:
Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991) led to a renewed enthusiasm for
lost histories of the modern city. His subsequent Evidence (1992)
helped create a worldwide interest in the archive forensic photograph.

Other participants include Dominique Angeloro (Sydney Morning Herald),
Dan Angeloro, (UNSW), Lindsay Barrett (UWS), Matthew Connell (Powerhouse
Museum), Peter Doyle (Macquarie University), Susan Doyle (UTS), Caroline
Mackaness, (Museum of Sydney), Alec Morgan (Macquarie University), Caleb
Williams (Justice and Police Museum).

GHOST TOWN will be of particular interest to media students and
scholars, writers, artists, photographers, archivists, museologists,
historians, and anyone fascinated with Sydney's past.

Enquiries: Peter Doyle, 9850 8752
Email: Peter.Doyle@scmp.mq.edu.au

Admission free, but due to limited seating booking recommended

Booking: Christine Jones, Media Department, Macquarie University
Email: cjones@scmp.mq.edu.au
Phone: 9850 8786

Ghost town is sponsored by the Media Department, Macquarie University

PROGRAM

10.00
Introduction, opening remarks
John Potts, Macquarie University

10.15
Trespassing, or, the ethics of archives
Luc Sante

11.00-1.00 Reflections

Haunted by a vitality that is no more: interpreting the photograph in
the crime archive
Caleb Williams (Justice and Police Museum)

Pixel Pirating: remixing video rentals
Dominique Angeloro (Sydney Morning Herald) Dan Angeloro (UNSW)

Photo finish: archives of Automatic Totalisators Limited
Matthew Connell (Powerhouse Museum)

1.00-2.00 - Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 Picturing Sydney

Slumscape or urban pastoral?: doomed streets of inner Sydney,
1890-1914
Susan Doyle (UTS)

Shadows don't belong in a bright and sunny place: Sydney newsreels of
the 1930s Depression era
Alec Morgan (Macquarie University)

Observations on photography: from archive to exhibition
Caroline Mackaness (Museum of Sydney)

4.00 - 5.00 Projections
The utilitarian photographer
Lindsay Barrett (University of Western Sydney)

Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots of the 1920s.
Peter Doyle (Macquarie University)

5.00 Join us for drinks at the bar

Individual abstracts and biographical information available at
http://www.media.mq.edu.au/ghosttown