In April 2021, the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts hosted a one-day online symposium, Remote Sensing. Speakers were members of the UAL academic community (staff and students) and invited guests from national and international institutions. This publication contains documentation of the symposium, including transcripts, expanded abstracts, discussions, images, and sound.
The conversations, experiences, and challenges emerging from the pandemic have been unanticipated. They have been transformative personally, professionally, and creatively. This time has impacted on ways of seeing and accessing subject matter, and foregrounded perspectives, positions, and technologies in ways of experiencing the world. The concerns raised are broad and shared with disciplines dealing with observation and interpretation.
The contributors featured in this publication share an interest in fieldwork with a focus on the restrictions imposed on places, communities, and collections. Remote Sensing encompasses a deliberately expansive approach, acknowledging subject matter that may be geographically, culturally, or historically hard to reach.