Fotomuseum Winterthur | Online Events | Wednesday, 29.03.2023, 19:00–20:00

Screen Walk with İdil Galip

Researcher İdil Galip will present an insight into her work on the creative digital labour of making memes. She will share her data collection process; how she finds, collects, codes and analyses internet memes and other such cultural artefacts. Throughout the Screen Walk, she will be scrolling, tapping, clicking, saving, organising and exploring a variety of digital ephemera.

In Screen Walks, a series of live-streamed explorations of digital spaces, selected artists and researchers investigate artistic strategies taking place online. The project gives an insight into practices using the screen as a medium. From re-contextualising pictures found on online marketplaces and uncovering data brokers’ invisible circulation of images to analysing in-game photography and the social, political and economic implications of games – Screen Walks examines various approaches, offers a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ work and uncovers new, current and forgotten digital spaces. Screen Walks is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Biography:
İdil Galip holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She primarily writes about the creative work of meme-making and the platformisation of culture through theoretical interventions and ethnographic methods. She also runs the Meme Studies Research Network, an interdisciplinary network for people who study memes.

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