presentations

Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest seminar

During the Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest exhibition at the Hasselblad Centre, the Hasselblad Foundation and Valand Academy, Gothenburg University organised a Seminar and Panel Discussion with artists, researchers and activists to explore the effects of drone technologies on political protests and war. Taking place in the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the City Library, 14-15 September 2018, the discussions were supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Gothenburg City and the Olof Palme Memorial Fund.

NCAD talk Drone Vision

Invited to speak about my research into SAAB as part of The Design Research: Space series of public talks hosted by the MA Design History & Material Culture at NCAD. (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) ‘Going Underground: Negotiation and Transgression in the Photographic Histories of SAAB Defence and Security’

09 March 2018. Click here for poster PDF.

Photography/Ireland/Archives 2017 Symposium

Photography/Ireland/Archives 2017 Symposium, DIT Grangegorman. Presented ‘Re-imagining Treason: The Riddle of the Photograph’ and discussed my artistic research on the Childers family photographic archive, TCD within the context of Erskine Childers’ 1903 seminal novel of spycraft, The Riddle of the Sands; a Record of Secret Service.

03 November 2017. Click here for Symposium Abstracts.

‘Photography, Experiment and Social Change’ Symposium Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, 22 November 2017. Presented ‘Going Underground – Negotiation and Transgression in the Photographic Histories of SAAB Defence and Security’. Research supported by Research and Development Award from Hasselblad Foundation and Valand Academy for Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest project.