Workshop 22 July, 12pm start with Nicolas Malevé and Adam Brown: Rethinking workshop / Rethinking work @The Photographers' Gallery in London [part of geekender and Experimental Photo School] 16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW What kind of work is photography, and how can a photographic worker be taught, in the face of increasing automation, precarious working and a saturated market? Thinking back to the beginnings of workers’ education in the nineteenth century, a historical emphasis on self-empowerment through creativity persists in contemporary creative education, but how does one empower an algorithm, and does the camera or digital network now play the role of ‘middle management?’ … [Read more...]
Spectacle, Speculation and Spam
Spectacle, Speculation and Spam by Alan Warburton This video essay was created by Alan Warburton for the Edge of Frame Weekend seminar at The Whitechapel gallery in East London in December 2016. Artists, curators and academics were asked to explore where experimental animation practice sits in relation to independent animation, visual art, histories and institutions. Rather than presenting papers, participants were challenged to cite up to three works that illustrated their case. … [Read more...]
CSNI PhD Symposium and Research Event, 29 June
PhD Symposium 29 Jun, 10.15 - 17.00 @ Mayday Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London The Centre was established formally in November 2015 and is pleased to convene its first annual review of its PhD research programme with invited external respondents. Lunch will be provided and time to celebrate the achievements of the year with a drink afterwards. The programme for the day will involve a closed morning session with presentations from five research projects together with invited comments. The afternoon session will open with a reading session led by Daniel Rubinstein followed by a keynote presentation from Olga Goriunova. The provocation for wider discussion is that the networked image suggests a rejection of meaning to be found in the singular image, icon or even artist's work in favour of … [Read more...]
Ways of Machine Seeing, Cambridge, 26-28 June
Panel: Unthinking Photography: cultural value and the networked image @ Ways of Machine Seeing organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities Network, and CoDE (Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute) and Cambridge Big Data with Nicolas Malevé, Gaia Tedone, Katrina Sluis, Annet Dekker, Magda Tyżlik-Carver, Andrew Dewdney “If the new language of images were used differently, it would, through its use, confer a new kind of power.” John Berger. (1972) Ways of Seeing,P33 John Berger's BBC broadcast experiment ‘Ways of Seeing’ argued that vision and seeing are essentially meaning making activities. Revisiting this understanding of the reproductive and cultural modes of seeing now in computational culture is timely, not least because Berger was concerned with a politics of … [Read more...]
TRAFFICKING OF CULTURAL GOODS: 3D modelling and digital colonialism
9 Jun 2017, 18.30 @ The Photographers' Gallery with Özge Ersoy, Nour A. Munawar, Sarah Nankivell, Christina Varvia curated by Annet Dekker Trafficking of cultural heritage is nothing new. It ranges from the looting of archaeological sites, theft from cultural heritage institutions and private collections, and the displacement of artefacts due to war. Recently a new phenomenon can be added to this list: the filming of destructions of “fake” ancient relics, while the originals are quickly and illicitly traded. Following the release of such videos by ISIS, many Western nation states reacted with outrage and responded by attempts to digitally preserve or rebuild of some of the remains. While adopting conventional methods of appropriation, and ignoring their own role in these … [Read more...]
Transformations at Borough road Gallery
Exhibition: Transformations @ Borough Road Gallery, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA The School of Arts and Creative Industries Vernissage: 23rd June 6-8pm Exhibition Open: 26 - 30 June 2017, 11am - 7pm The School of Arts and Creative Industries invites you to a solo exhibition of networked artworks by artist Garrett Lynch (IRL), titled Transformations. Transformations presents nine networked artworks conceived over a four-year period that explore a practice involving networks. Each artwork provides an example of transformation by a network. This includes the transformation of what is arranged as part of the conception of the artwork and as a consequence the transformation of what can be considered as an artwork. Garrett Lynch is an artist, lecturer, curator and theorist. He … [Read more...]
Experimental Photo School: Geekender
5-7 May 2017 TPG Geekender: Experimental Photo School with Morehshin Allahyari, Gretchen Andrew, Adam Brown, Rich Cochraine, Claire Davis, Gene Kogan, Nicolas Malevé, Andrew McGettigan, David West, organised by Katrina Sluis, Ioana Zouli with support from Nicolas Malevé The collision of photography with planetary scale computing is transforming the medium, disrupting traditional conceptions of visual literacy, raising new questions concerning the agency and cultural value of images and creating new job opportunities even as it destroys others. Today, computer scientists develop algorithms to read, organize and valorize the billions of images which circulate online without familiarity or reference to the history of aesthetics or photography theory. Animals, weather cameras … [Read more...]
Posthuman Curating: curating authenticity or the question of content online
CSNI Panel Discussion with Anne-Marie Schleiner (via video link), Michaël Borras A.K.A Systaime, Gaia Tedone curated and moderated by Magda Tyżlik-Carver. @ The Photographers' Gallery Thursday 6 Apr, 18.30. The claim that curating is posthuman recognises the changing modes of curating in the world of mass participation in and mass creation of popular culture. It is no longer just about meaning making by art professionals who commission, archive and interpret objects in museums' collections but it defines a popular activity performed daily by agents of different orders. Not just curators but users of social media, not just people but algorithms and software are actively involved in managing, organising and evaluating content. Curating has become a practice that supports … [Read more...]
Expressions with sound and image. Technic-praxis-theory
05 April 2017 10h - 16.30h Anfiteatro ISMAI Instituto Universitário da Maia, Porto, Portugal With Tiago Cruz, Irene Luszting, Magda Tyżlik-Carver, Francisca Gonçalves AKA DJ Sininho, Ricardo Salazar Expressions with sound and image. Technic-praxis-theory is a series of open classes, promoted by the curricular unit of scenic arts of the arts and multimedia course at the Instituto Universitário da Maia in Porto, Portugal, presenting artistic work, and national and international investigations in the various areas of sound and image. … [Read more...]
Executing Practices – book launch at transmediale festival in Berlin [05/02/17]
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transmediale festival, HKW Berlin Sun, 05.02.2017 15:00 - 17:30 Cafe Stage Executing Practices is a public book launch and alternative presentation of content from Data Browser 6: Executing Practices, to be published by Autonomedia in early 2017. The book brings together artists, curators, programmers, and theorists whose practices make critical intervention into executions (of code, orders, laws etc.), drawing attention to their assembled structures and biopolitical strategies. The contributing authors engage with execution from diverse vantage points, defining the actors and forces guiding execution practices, and for whom or what they are performed. Queering the typical book launch, the event features different execution practices from the book, expanding related … [Read more...]
Sliding into a face: aesthetics and politics of image recognition
CSNI and The Photographers' Gallery Panel Discussion Thu 24 Nov, 2016, 18.30 Curated by artist and educator Nicolas Malevé with Federica Biotti and Zach Blas What happened to the face? The list is long of what computers do with faces. Applying filters, they improve facial aesthetics. Computers also detect faces in pictures – they identify people, they reconstruct faces based on data, they correlate faces and other data, they predict the evolution of a face. The face is not a given, it is always under construction. It only exists as a face as long as we have the right apparatus to perceive it and the right configuration. The face can escape and elude perception (as in the case of prosopagnosia). A long process of reconstruction and archeology may be necessary to make it … [Read more...]