IMAGE WORLDS: HYBRIDITY

When

Fri, 31 July 2026

Where

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Price

Price TBA

31st July and 1st August, 2026 About this Event Join us for the second iteration of Image Worlds ! OPEN TO ALL. This international symposium observes the bicentennial of photography by invoking a remarkable journey – from Ibn al-Haytham’s (the father of modern optics) 10th-century conception of the ‘qamra’ (moonlit chamber) to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s grainy 19th-century heliotype—a 900-year trajectory. Through an immersive engagement with contemporary cultural producers, we use the conceptual pivot of ‘hybridity’ to reflect on evolving practices, genealogies and paradigms of image cultures as well as scripto-visual landscapes. As Homi Bhabha has noted: “All forms of culture are continually in a process of hybridity… the importance of hybridity is not to be able to trace two original mome