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| installation view "smart as photography – be an artist today!" © Maria Schumann, rem |
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smart as photography – be an artist today! |
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| Conference: 28 February – 2 March, 2019 |
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Cord Arendes - Professor for Public History, Heidelberg Univerity
Yasmin Meinicke - Manager Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie
Ina Neddermeyer – Head oft the Art Dept. of Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Thomas Schirmböck - Head ZEPHYR - Raum für Fotografie |
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Admission free.
Registration: smart@zephyr-mannheim.com or +49 (0)621 / 293 9264
Location: Florian-Waldeck-Saal, Museum Zeughaus C5, 68159 Mannheim
Exhibition: "smart as photography – be an artist today!" until March 3, 2019
Project partners: ZEPHYR – Raum für Fotografie / Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie / Kulturamt der Stadt Mannheim |
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The conference "smart as photography – be an artist today!" takes place at the end of the exhibition with the same name, which is primarily composed of works by the speakers.
The starting point for both the conference and the exhibition was the idea of the initiators (Zephyr - Raum für Fotografie and Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie) to examine the different strategies used by artists who nowadays use the smartphone as a recording medium. |
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The selection of speakers paints a diverse picture: David Campany and Anastasia Samoylova examine the possibilities of communication with and through images and conduct a visual pictorial dialogue. Their lecture starts off a reflection on the basic requirements of the medium.
Joachim Schmid collects existing images and examines them for their aesthetic and cultural relevance, while Rosa Roth asked the Instagram community to send their best images.
Simon Menner also works with found visual material with which he analyses the communication strategies of power and violence, using the example of the so-called IS.
The facets of chance are the basis for the work of Katrin Koenning, Douglas Busch and Dieter M. Gräf. The first discovers the enchanting beauty of the incidental in her immediate surroundings and captures it in both still and moving images, the second recalls the days of large-format photography and translates it into the present and Gräf discovers the power and possibility of the smartphone camera in his deserted childhood home.
Cord Arendes is dedicated to the 'smart' production of images by historians and to the consideration of whether they (can) slip into the role of artists through their active as well as analytical participation in media change.
Alistair Taylor-Young discovers the technical possibilities of the earliest analogue photography in the iPhone.
Last but not least, the smartphone helps artists to (re)construct space and time in a real and in a virtual way. The conference contributions by Ina Neddermeyer and Nathan Su, Forensic Architecture, reflect on the various varieties of virtual realities that artists generate with their smartphones. |
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The smartphone is omnipresent and powerful as an interface between social action, artistic practice and aesthetic change. In the accompanying exhibition, the possibilities of the medium will be tested through artistic contributions and visualized, while the conference will discuss questions that lead to a further understanding of smartphone photography.
The conference and exhibition are in dialogue with each other and will be accessible free of charge to all interested parties during the conference weekend. This is intended to appeal to a broad public to participate in the discourse on smartphone photography which is currently probably the most democratic artistic medium. Conference languages are German and English. The conference will be streamed live via YouTube and subsequently will be available online via the website of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie and Zephyr Raum für Fotografie. |
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