| | | | | | | | | From Kardashian Krypt/Subscription Services, 2019 © Maddy Varner | | | SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data | | | | SITUATIONS# 159 - #169 | | | | | | | Exhibition: 23 February - 2 June, 2019 | | | | Opening: Friday, 22 February, 6-9pm | | | Open Call: short video projects (1min) | | | the interplay of text and (photographic) images
in today’s data-driven culture | | | | Call for entries: 23 February – 24 March 2019 | | | | Screening Event: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 | | | You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You | | | | engage with photography’s changing role | | | | Presentation: Thursday 4 April 2018 at 18:30 | | | Katrina Sluis, Adjunct Curator (Digital Programme) at The Photographers’ Gallery in London
Jon Uriarte, Artistic Director of DONE Festival at Foto Colectania in Barcelona
the curators of SITUATIONS, Fotomuseum Winterthur | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SITUATIONS is an experimental exhibition format that reacts dynamically to current photographic and cultural developments. A SITUATION may take the form of a photographic image, a video or a performance, an essay or quote aimed at an in-depth exploration of a topic. Numbered consecutively, SITUATIONS are presented as thematic clusters in the physical space and online at situations.fotomuseum.ch. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Maddie Varner: from "Kardashian Crypt", 2014 © Maddie Varner | | | | | SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data | | | | SITUATIONS# 159 - #169 | | | | | | | Exhibition: 23 February - 2 June, 2019 | | | | Opening: Friday, 22 February, 6-9pm | | | | We rarely encounter a photographic image unaccompanied, but rather as an integral part of a broader arrangement of media. What tended to be confined to text-image constellations in the era of print media has increasingly morphed and expanded into hybrid assemblages comprising a wide variety of image, text and audiovisual materials sourced from diverse contexts and displayed simultaneously on our screens and digital platforms. | | | | | | | | | | From text(s) to screen, digital collage, 2015 © Shawné Michaelain Holloway | | | | | | | Yet, while our culture is becoming increasingly visual, its foundations remain textually coded – be it through the zeros and ones of the binary code or through the metadata and algorithms inscribed in photographs that determine the circulation of the images as well as the arrangements in which they appear. SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data explores contemporary variations of text and image and the tensions in between that determine not only what we see but how we see it. | | | | | | | | | | Natalie Czech: A Poem by Repetition by Allen Ginsberg, 2013 © Natalie Czech | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Open Call: short video projects (1min) | | | the interplay of text and (photographic) images
in today’s data-driven culture | | | | Call for entries: 23 February – 24 March 2019 | | | | Screening Event: Wednesday, 8 May 2019 | | | For our upcoming SITUATIONS cluster Photo Text Data we ask for submissions of one minute short video projects that focus on the interplay of text and (photographic) images in today’s data-driven culture. The projects should reflect on recent phenomena like memes, metadata, clickbait, tagging, etc. to explore the tensions between text and image that determine not only what we see, but how we see it.
The winning projects will receive a 500 CHF award and will be showcased on a screening event on Wednesday, 08.05.2019.
Requirements: video project: 1 min, H.264/mp4 video format, the work has to be a combination of text and image and reflect our upcoming SITUATIONS cluster Photo Text Data, for orientation: fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/situations/clusters/155772 a short description of the work short bio a high-resolution portrait Candidates’ entries must be submitted by Sunday, 24.03.2019 (midnight CET) via: bit.ly/FotomuseumOpenCall
The featured artists will be announced on Monday, 08.04.2019.
SITUATIONS Cluster: Photo Text Data | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You | | | | engage with photography’s changing role | | | | Presentation: Thursday 4 April 2018 at 18:30 | | | Katrina Sluis, Adjunct Curator (Digital Programme) at The Photographers’ Gallery in London
Jon Uriarte, Artistic Director of DONE Festival at Foto Colectania in Barcelona
the curators of SITUATIONS, Fotomuseum Winterthur | | | In light of the shift that has significantly reshaped the photographic medium, its boundaries and definitions are increasingly investigated in order to update its discourse. Yet many photography institutions have preferred to shy away from the transformations of the medium, and few are ready to provide the resources that help us navigate and make sense of photography’s “mutations” today.
You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You attempts to extend, upgrade and reboot our understanding of photography by creating a digital and printed guidebook to engage directly with this exciting and uncharted territory. Katrina Sluis, Adjunct Curator (Digital Programme) at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Jon Uriarte, Artistic Director of DONE Festival at Foto Colectania in Barcelona join the curators of SITUATIONS to conceive this playful manual, experimental map and subversive manifesto of photography for the extreme present.
In this evening event the authors of this ongoing project will present the initial ideas behind You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You (a title referring to one of John Cage’s statements). They will share provocations, frustrations, visions and possibilities for practitioners, theoreticians and institutions to engage with photography’s changing role, and discuss with the audience paradigms and questions that are most relevant for photography today.
The event will take place in English on 4 April 2018 at 18:30 in the exhibition SITUATIONS/Photo Text Data at Fotomuseum (Grüzenstrasse 44, 8400 Winterthur).
More about Unthinking Photography: unthinking.photograph
More about DONE Festival: fotocolectania.org/en/tags/8/done | | | | |
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| | | | SITUATIONS statement
situations.fotomuseum.ch
As every citizen with a smartphone, laptop or tablet knows, photography is becoming increasingly ‘distributed’. Driven by the vast replicative power of digital algorithms, photographs now move with tremendous speed across a wide variety of devices and platforms. The distinction between the still and the moving image is becoming increasingly blurred. At the same time, digital vision is now profoundly social, implicated in many areas of human activity. Certainly, this is having an impact on practice as younger artists in particular work with a range of media and no longer easily describe themselves as photographers.
In our daily work we find ourselves speaking more of the photographic than photography, of photographic media, rather than the medium. This poses a challenge for a photography museum with a distinctive, but significantly analogue history. We are convinced that Fotomuseum Winterthur needs to react decisively and that this means far more than simply re-embracing a rather out-dated ‘digital turn’.
On 10 April 2015 Fotomuseum Winterthur launched a new exhibition format titled SITUATIONS, which allows us to react more quickly to developments within photographic culture. The role of SITUATIONS is to define Fotomuseum Winterthur’s vision of what photography is becoming, at the same time offering an innovative integration of physical exhibition space and virtual forum. Using tags and clusters as a mode of curatorial classification the aim is to integrate the real and the virtual in relation to exhibition in a new way.
Numbered consecutively, a SITUATION may last a few hours, or two months, and might be photographic imagery, a film, a text, an on-line interview, a screenshot, a photo-book presentation, a projection, a Skype lecture, a performance etc. It might take place in Winterthur or perhaps in São Paulo or Berlin and be streamed on our website. The idea is to construct a constantly growing archive of SITUATIONS, reframing the idea of exhibition in relation to new technologies and both our local and global audiences.
Each cluster can be searched and reordered by visitors in the SITUATIONS online archive using a system of tags. Over time, new clusters and combinations – and new virtual exhibitions – will emerge. | | | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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