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smart as photography - be an artist today! |
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| Smartphone - Photography - Art |
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| 3 February – 3 March, 2019 |
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Conference "smart as photography - be an artist today!"
28 February – 2 March, 2019 |
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Koenning: Forest I, from Successions, 2015
© Katrin Koenning |
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| No other medium influences our everyday life as severely as the smartphone. We use it to plan our daily routine, maintain contacts and it helps us to keep ourselves constantly informed. The smartphone is also omnipresent in art. smart as photography - be an artist today! is an exhibition (3 February ‐ 3 March, 2019) and conference (28 February - 2 March, 2019) that showcases artists as smartphone users. The diversity of possibilities, ranging from the accidental appropriation of photography to quantitative analysis, from communication dynamics to pure beauty to the investigation of war crimes, is illustrated by the different positions. All exhibiting artists will give lectures at the eponymous conference. Project partners for both parts are ZEPHYR - Raum für Fotografie, the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie and the Cultural Office of the City of Mannheim. |
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Merc
© Alistair Taylor-Young |
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| The ever-present availability of the camera and the expansion of the sender and receiver circuit via social media characterizes artists such as Anastasia Samoylova and David Campany. On their Instagram account #dialogue_aandd they exclusively communicate via images. Their visual dialogue is powerful, experimental, private and public at the same time. Katrin Koenning uses the camera to capture fleeting and dreamy moments. In her poetic black-and-white works, she is attracted by the interaction of light and shadow in her immediate surroundings. She shares this universal perception of transience with Dieter M. Gräf, who used his smartphone to document his orphaned childhood home in Ludwigshafen. Douglas Busch's photographs which explore the beach as the dividing line between sea and land, also seem very poetic, but somewhat abstract. |
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She looks better in pictures
© Joachim Schmid |
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| In addition to the artists who take original pictures with their smartphones, the exhibition also features artists who appropriate existing photos and use them to create new works of art. Joachim Schmid analyses the selfie mania in front of the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. In the early days of the iPhone, Alistair Taylor-Young discovered an analogy between the technical possibilities of the smartphone and those of the beginnings of photography. This was when he began to reflexively accompany the birth of a medium. |
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| Forensic Architecture: A reconstructed 3D model of the building by Forensic Architecture, overlaid on to a photograph of the mosque after two bombs hit the northern part of the building. Image: Forensic Architecture, 2017 |
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Images from smartphones have long been a key source of traditional media, especially when it comes to conflicts, uprisings, and battles in conflict areas. In his work, Simon Menner examines the iconographies and distribution methods of images depicting death. He asks how terror is produced and how it is consumed through the media. The focus of Forensic Architecture is also on violence and acts of war. In their works, the group of artists recreates real events both spatially and temporally. For example, the bombing of a meeting of alleged terrorists in Syria.
To illustrate the enormous artistic diversity of smartphone photography, Rosa Roth invited the Instagram community to submit their best images and share them with the visitors of the exhibition. |
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| David Campany und Anastasia Samoylova: #dialogue_aandd, 2017 |
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Conference "smart as photography - be an artist today!"
28 February – 2 March, 2019
Florian Waldeck-Saal, Museum Zeughaus C5, Mannheim
Register for the conference (free of charge):
[email protected] or +49 (0)621 / 293 9264
Speakers :
Cord Arendes, Douglas Busch, David Campany, Dieter M. Gräf, Katrin Koenning, Simon Menner, Ina Neddermeyer, Rosa Roth, Anastasia Samoylova, Thomas Schirmböck, Joachim Schmid, Nathan Su (Forensic Architecture) and Alistair Taylor-Young.
Partner:
ZEPHYR – Raum für Fotografie der Reiss Engelhorn Museen, Mannheim
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie
Kulturamt der Stadt Mannheim |
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| Douglas Busch: Transplants from Zuma Foam, 2015 |
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