David Campany contributes an essay ‘I Saw Right Away That He Was Not There’ to Edgar Martins’ new book Anton’s hand is made of guilt. No muscle of bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb, a research-based documentary project, a novel, a journal, a lipogramme, an imaginary anthropological study, and a multifaceted body of work […]
Lola Olufemi is curating the public programme for the South London Gallery exhibition, Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest. This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. This urgent and political […]
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You are warmly invited to join a roundtable discussion to explore how researchers across museums and universities can work together to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing research landscape. The idea of what comprises ‘research’, who and what this involves, and its impact and responsibilities have undergone a significant change in the twenty-first century. […]
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Ciné Lumière is offering two screenings of works by feminist filmmakers and artists from France and Belgium, giving a perspective of Women in Revolt as shaped on the continent in the same time period as the UK activists of the 1970s and 1980s. The film programme Through a Radical Lens takes up the themes of the current […]
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Sunil Gupta and Roshini Kempadoo were in conversation as part of the Westminster Photography Forum, London in 2021. The conversation, entitled ‘From Here to Eternity: 35 years of Image Making‘ will feature in the exhibition Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound in Vienna, Austria. Curated by Zehra Baraçkılıç and Ruby Sircar, the Academy of […]
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CREAM PhD researcher, Mary Martins will be discussing her research and practice in the Animate Projects – Accelerate Sessions: The Personal Archive on Tuesday 12th March at 6pm. This session looks at ‘the personal archive’ where Mary will be joined by artists and animators, Jessica Ashman, Maybelle Peters and Keith Piper as they all discuss and […]
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The last decade has seen a clear shift in the operational frameworks for the production, dissemination and consumption of photographs in contemporary computerised societies. The representational apparatus of photography is being progressively converted into algorithmic and generative processes through computer automation, connectivity and algorithmic control. Recent developments of AI systems and expanded technologies exponentially transform […]
Registration is now open for Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances. This conference will take place in the Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2024 (10.00-18.00), following an opening reception at Chelsea Space, University of the Arts, London on Thursday 21 March 2024 (18.00-20.30). Bringing together papers in response […]
Shining Lights reflects the work by Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Editors are Joy Gregory and Taous Dahmani. Edited and researched by Joy Gregory, alongside art historian Taous Dahmani. Roshini Kempadoo has contributed an essay entitled: Doing it All Again: Re-imagining Blackness, Memory, and History, a joint portfolio with Claudette […]
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David Campany contributes a major essay to ‘American Glitch’ the new book by artists Caleb Stein & Andrea Orejarena. The book explores the friction between fact and fiction and how this is manifested in the U.S. landscape. An ocean of information leaves us questioning what is real — and what isn’t. In an era defined by screens, the notion that we’re […]