Historical entanglements of light and sound //
Our inaugural lecture of the Black Hole Photography Lecture Series started on Wednesday June 11, 2025 Time: 11-12 Location: Large Lecture Hall, Erjavčeva ulica 23., ALUO, Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana 1000
Speaker: Jennifer Marine, MA,
University of Virginia, Art History
“In 2019, astronomers captured the now-iconic image of black hole M87—a photograph unlike any other. Made with no camera or film, how can such an image still be called a photograph?” Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the fluid boundaries between photography and scientific imaging. This talk traces a fascinating arc from Margaret Watts-Hughes’s “Voice Figures” and Robert Williams Wood’s sound wave photography, to the radio-based imaging of deep space, interrogating the very definition of a photograph. Discover how light and sound have long been entangled in the visual history of science and art—blurring categories, challenging conventions, and reshaping how we see (and hear) the world.