book launch
(27 /10/2022)
The launch of the book expo-facto: into the algorithm of exhibition will take place in Helsinki as part of the EARN conference Making Artistic Research Public with short presentations by Bassam El Baroni and Joasia Krysa. As part of the book launch there will also be a short workshop that seeks to further develop the themes and questions introduced in the book. The workshop will be based on break-out groups tasked with considering the following questions:
for the break-out groups
The workshop tasks proposed to the break out groups include:
- Within your own day-to-day working practices what are the key online resources that you and your colleagues use to: (i) access current information on what is happening in your field? and (ii) that you use to share information or ideas from your own practice and research?
- With the development of the Covid19 vaccination programmes and the idea of us reaching a “post-pandemic” moment, do you see any key differences in how you and your colleagues use “online” spaces and processes within your day to day practices? If there are key differences or changes, what are these?
- The book Expo-Facto is presented as an opening step in initiating a broader research discussion on the changing terms of what some have termed “digital network culture” or “algorithmic culture etc. The issues introduced in the book range from the pre-internet moves to technologize the museum space to the ambivalent ways in which digital-native art practices have been engaged by the institutions of contemporary art; from the way technologies have enabled the development of contemporary art as a new asset class in contemporary capitalism to the way themes of speculation and the imaginary operate within the contemporary art field, and the idea of an economy of distraction-attention. What are the questions, issues, problems or themes that you would like to see opened up in respect of the broad interaction of contemporary art practices and digital network technologies?
- What are the potential pitfalls or mis-steps that might be generated in approaching these themes and questions?
If the workshop participants are willing and interested, the responses to these questions will be shared publicly via this blog. In framing this follow-on conversation from the book project, the EARN Curatorial Studies Working Group is proposing a temporary space for exchange and dialogue among researchers in this space.
The rapporteur in each break-out group is invited to email any notes from their session (on the day after the workshop Friday 28 October 2022) to xwimic(at)gu.se (with “Expo-Facto notes” in the message header) and these will be collated and published on this page on Saturday 29 October 2022.
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