Dr Alexander Supartono's Outputs (10)

Original Copy: Political Character of Woodcut Work (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2024, December). Original Copy: Political Character of Woodcut Work. Presented at Symposium on Graphic Printmaking: Examining Character in Graphic Printmaking, University of Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

In 2019, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan hosted a ground-breaking survey exhibition featuring 400 woodcuts created across Asia from the 1930s to the 2010s. Titled "Blaze Carved in the Darkness: Woodcut Movements in Asia," it was the largest and... Read More about Original Copy: Political Character of Woodcut Work.

Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2024, July). Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums. Presented at International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 13), Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Owing to the ubiquity, multifaceted uses, and vast volume of photographs that exist in physical and online worlds, photography presents itself as a challenging practice for 21st-century art institutions. Indeed, what is museum photography and its cul... Read More about Accommodating Photography in Southeast Asian Museums.

Photo Albums and the Social Life of 19th century Javanese Antiquity Photographs (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2023, June). Photo Albums and the Social Life of 19th century Javanese Antiquity Photographs. Paper presented at Photo Monde, The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France

As part of their ongoing exhibition "An Early Album of the World (1842-1911)" from 4 April to 2 July 2023, Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris has organized a symposium in the museum on 15 and 16 June 2023.
With researchers, photo-historia... Read More about Photo Albums and the Social Life of 19th century Javanese Antiquity Photographs.

Travel Albums and the Formulation of 19th Southeast Asian Photographic Traditions (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2022, November). Travel Albums and the Formulation of 19th Southeast Asian Photographic Traditions. Paper presented at The Makings of Art from Southeast Asia and the Problem of Colonial Legacies, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Photographers in 19th Southeast Asian operated in a complex regional network of partnership, competition and apprenticeship beyond the spatial boundaries of colonial states. This paper will look at their role in formulating the thematic (views and ty... Read More about Travel Albums and the Formulation of 19th Southeast Asian Photographic Traditions.

The archive as producer: Abednego Trianto’s postcolonial appropriation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2021, November). The archive as producer: Abednego Trianto’s postcolonial appropriation. Presented at Photography Education in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, University of Zhejiang, China

This paper will discuss three body of works by the Indonesian photographer Abednego Trianto: Sugar Lords in Java (2012), 1883 (2014), and What Am I Going to Be When I Grow Up? Raden Ayu of Course (2015). Exhibited in the Noorderlicht festival (the N... Read More about The archive as producer: Abednego Trianto’s postcolonial appropriation.

Taming the Exotic: Landscape Photographs in the Dutch East Indies (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2019, July). Taming the Exotic: Landscape Photographs in the Dutch East Indies. Presented at ICAS 11: The International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden University, the Netherlands

In February 1933, The Staatsspoorwegen (SS) rail company advertised their first-class compartment at the Java Gazette, an English travel and trade magazine published in the Dutch East Indies. A photograph depicts a middle age European couple sitting... Read More about Taming the Exotic: Landscape Photographs in the Dutch East Indies.

Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2018, July). Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia. Presented at 22nd ASAA Biennial Conference 2018, University of Sydney, Australia

This paper investigates the adoption and adaptation of colonial pictorial commonplace that formulated the shared photographic traditions in 19th-century South and Southeast Asia through the works of three leading native photographers, Kassian Cephas... Read More about Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia.

Constructing the Portrait of Southeast Asia: Pictorial Commonplaces in 19th Century Southeast Asia Photography (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2017, July). Constructing the Portrait of Southeast Asia: Pictorial Commonplaces in 19th Century Southeast Asia Photography. Presented at ICAS 10: International Convention of Asia Scholars, Chiang Mai, Thailand

This paper investigates the formulation Southeast Asia pictorial commonplace and photographic tradition through the works of photographers and commercial photographic studios in the region at the second half of the 19th century. It examines how geogr... Read More about Constructing the Portrait of Southeast Asia: Pictorial Commonplaces in 19th Century Southeast Asia Photography.

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moschovi, A., & Supartono, A. (2016, September). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Paper presented at Association of Southeast Asian Studies UK (ASEASUK) Conference 2016, SOAS, London

This paper seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of the findings of an international, multid... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.

Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2015, April). Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?. Paper presented at Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World

The photography scene in Southeast Asia has developed regionally since the early days of the camera. The flourishing commercial photographic studios in the region (thanks to the success of colonial enterprises that provided sufficient clientele) witn... Read More about Is There Such A Thing as Southeast Asian Photography?.