Symposia

A symposium exploring legacy of Jack Smith, including presentations by British filmmaker Anna Thew on Smith's influence on UK filmmaking.

A student symposium for UK-based MA and PhD students to present their research into artists’ moving image, with keynote speaker: Jan Verwoert, Why Rudie Can’t Fail.

A student symposium for UK-based MA and PhD students to present their research into artists’ moving image with keynote speaker: Maeve Connolly, Television, Cultural Legitimation and Contemporary Art.

Inaugurating the opening of the Dwoskin archive at the University of Reading, this symposium explores Stephen Dwoskin's historical importance as a key figure in independent film and his groundbreaking film work.

The start of 2014 saw the death of Amiri Baraka, one of the most influential and galvanising cultural figures of the twentieth century - this conference will assess the scope of nearly 65 years of work, considering the importance, paradoxes and potentialities of Baraka’s career across a range of disciplines.

This symposium, a collaboration between Birkbeck School of Arts and the ICA, examines how the non-visible may or may not be brought to light.

In response to the exhibition Journal, this symposium considers art’s relation to events of social and political significance.

This half-day symposium examines the integration of the digital in the construction of the ‘self’, asking how this has complicated our experience of material reality.

This symposium brings together researchers, members of activist art groups and members of the general public interested in the place and role of art’s criticality.

This multidisciplinary symposium seeks to interrogate philosophical realisms and object orientations within recent thought.

This symposium includes a conversation with Hans Haacke and presentations by international speakers on various aspects of the artist's work and art in the public domain.

As part of his campaign as Chair of Interior and Spatial Design at UAL, Professor Ben Kelly hosts Interior Design: Dead or Alive.

Recent acts of re-publication are the starting point for this symposium, which brings together artists, writers, curators and publishers for a wide-ranging discussion.

This half-day symposium brings together a collection of emerging and established voices examining the contemporary currency of craft.

In this symposium we will bring together designers, critics, academics and other voices to explore how designers have created narratives of futures, be they intended or impossible, desirable or not.

It is a paradox of advanced Western economies that bureaucracy has not only endured; it has actually proliferated. This event brings together academics, writers and artists to expose and represent the meaning and function of this scourge of everyday life that we all contend with.

This symposium invites practitioners from the worlds of art, architecture, theory and music to discuss the use, nature and possibilities of diagrams and diagramming.

This one-day symposium accompanies the Fox Reading Room exhibition Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s.

Avowing conditions of powerlessness, this symposium will explore the notion of ‘utopian realism today’ as a question of the politics and poetics of hope.

The ICA asks the question: if the 1995 project marked a moment of considering the importance of Franz Fanon and ways in which his writings on post-colonialism, identity, cinema and psychoanalysis intertwined with artistic practices and race, then what should the contemporary moment reflect upon?

A symposium exploring where we are we in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities?

Leading practitioners of feminist historiography from both art history and the social sciences will present how their particular feminist methodologies have made a difference to their mutually respective sites of 'archival' encounter.

Art flows, money flows, life flows. This symposium asks how these flows sustain or oppose each other and whether art can capture the axiomatics that bind these conjunctive and opposing forces together.

What are the traditions of women’s filmmaking in Britain, and what are the conditions it needs to flourish? This symposium reflects on the achievements of women directors in British cinema and revisits the perennial question of women’s under-representation in British film culture.

This half-day symposium poses questions about the synergies between feminist theory and practice and curatorial practices and collaborations.

This symposium explores the complex ways in which cities are mediated and how mediation forms urban experience.

Writers and poets Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi and David Herd read from the Refugee Tales collection, followed by a special performance by activist singer-songwriter Billy Bragg.

This colloquium brings together poets, academics and members of the public to celebrate the life, work and artistic connections of New York poet and critic Frank O’Hara.

A discussion of the overlapping practical, material, production and media environments across the disciplines of architecture, art and editorial design.

This symposium explores the diversity of creative responses to our changing urban environment – from street art and graffiti to yarn bombing and urban photography.

A curated programme of moving and still image work by Middlesex University staff and students alongside invited artists exploring the notion of the extraordinary.

An all-day event bringing together arts workers and educators to address issues in Fine Art Higher Education.

A seminar led by Dave Beech exploring ideas about the relationship of art and the commodity.

A symposium with speakers examining and unpacking urgent issues around the economic context of art.

A symposium bringing together artists and writers to discuss the changing role of performance and the artist's body.

A symposium bringing together filmmakers, theorists, curators and those working with animal groups, focusing around the ambiguities and co-operations that define our relations with other species.

A screening of Luca Comerio's imperialistic footage of 'exotic' peoples of the North Pole, refashioned and hand-tinted by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.

To accompany the exhibition in the ICA Upper Gallery, this evening symposium will explore the work and influence of the Belgian graphic artist.

For the second time since 2016, Refugee Tales walkers arrive at the ICA calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention in the UK.