Networked Images. creating | researching | collecting | curating
Photography no longer applies only to analogue prints developed in the photographer’s dark room. It rather alludes to images that are created with digital devices such as digital cameras and smartphones, or that are entirely computer-generated. The digital image does not necessarily have to be printed out in order to be perceived. Instead, it often remains as a networked image in the virtual space and on screens, where it is created, shared, altered by other users – so-called prosumers – and again distributed. This new status of the photograph also has an impact on its artistic production.
More than merely tackle the social aspects of the photographic medium going viral on social media platforms or image hosting services, the lecture and workshop of Networked Images aims to specifically focus on artistic photographic works with a digital context or origin. Those images characterised by their viral reproducibility appearing on various possible surfaces challenge the traditional notion of a unique physical piece of art yet are treated as such.
It is necessary to ask if and how digitally produced and presented art works differ from those vernacular images of prosumers and to what extent their transitory status is reflected. In view of these aspects the workshop strives to delve into questions concerning the motivation of artists to create images within the digital realm, the interest of researchers in decoding digital aesthetics and evaluating a new social impact, the attraction of collectors when purchasing non-tactile works and, finally, the preservation and exhibition of images that are, in fact, located in the virtual space.
Taking into account the ephemeral and intangible nature of these art works, we wish to enlarge upon the topic of Networked Images from these different perspectives in order to gain an idea about the practices of their handling and, thus, about the state of their value.
Friday’s lecture will be held in German; Saturday’s workshop language is English.
Organisation: Franziska Kunze, Katharina Zimmermann, Fellows of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung in the programme “Museum Curators for Photography”
Venue: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Grüzenstrasse 44+45, 8400 Winterthur
Admission is free, registration required at: stipend@fotomuseum.ch.
Programme
Friday, 21 September 2018
16:15-16:45 Introductory words by Nadine Wietlisbach, director Fotomuseum Winterthur, Ingomar Lorch, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Franziska Kunze and Katharina Zimmermann
16:45-17:45 Verteilte Bilder und musealer Raum - Überlegungen zur Ausstellbarkeit vernetzter Fotografie, Keynote-Lecture by Dr Susanne Holschbach
18:00 Opening SITUATIONS/Lab, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Walter Bosshard / Robert Capa. The race for China, Fotostiftung Schweiz
Saturday, 22 September 2018
09:30-10:30 Panel 1 creating | researching
Stefan Karrer, visual artist, Basel/Vienna
Susanne Holschbach, art/media historian, Berlin
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:45 Panel 2 collecting | curating
Mario von Kelterborn, art collector, Frankfurt/Main
Marco de Mutiis, digital curator, Winterthur
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Discussion forum
13:00-13:45 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Guided tour through Fotozentrum and the exhibition Juergen Teller – Enjoy Your Life!, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Visualization of the Twitter Network. Detail: There exists a single component in this network that encompasses 7% of the network, but there are other areas of high centrality outside that component, from the blog Digital Humanities, Stanford University Libraries by Elijah Meeks. Source: dhs.stanford.edu/gephi-workshop/twitter-network-gallery