Join us for an engaging discussion on expanded photography and the (hauntological) potential of AI, centering around the project #end_of_empire by artist Eva Sajovic in collaboration with musician Nicola Privato, commissioned for the British Textile Biennial 2023. #end_of_empire was a large scale, site-specific installation featuring knitted photographs embedded with touch sensors and AI generated sound. The […]
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A podcast series that accompanies the Women In Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain. This 6-part mini-series explores art, activism and the women’s movement in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. From early struggles for equal pay, to punk, Thatcher and the AIDS pandemic, this was a time of extreme social, economic and political change. […]
David Campany’s essay ‘Weegee and Kubrick’, appears in the new book Weegee: Autopsie du Spectacle (Textuel, France 2024) which accompanies an exhibition of the photography of Weegee curated by Clément Cheroux at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Perhaps the last great body of work made by Weegee, and certainly one of his most intriguing, is […]
Eugénie Shinkle’s photo installation Ideal City (Somebody Else’s Landscape) is showing as part of Grafting: The Land and the Artist at Photo50, curated by Revolv Collective at London Art Fair 2024. Centred in expanded photographic practice, the collection of works by early and mid-career artists will explore the subject of labour and its diverse representations within the […]
This article explores the transformative impact of extended reality technologies in the photographic medium. It discusses the work of Omoiyari and Nella Piatek, who leverage augmented reality for interactive storytelling and the exploration of cyberworlds. In the realm of virtual reality, the article explores its application in presenting 360º photographs and navigating virtual galleries. Examples […]
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Paula Gortázar presented her paper ´Generative Photographic Spaces: A Pixel-perfect Thrill’ at the conference How Humans and Machines See the World, organised by the Digital Humanities Department at King’s College London. Participating speakers discussed the cultural and technical interlacing between human perception and machine vision. Paula’s presentation explored the intriguing parallels between gaming and photography, a […]
CREAM PhD researcher Lucy Rogers presents her paper ‘Landscapes of Myth, Memory and Imagination: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s Memoryscapes’ at The International Conference on Photography Studies: Photography and Site on Wednesday 6 December. In this paper, Rogers explores the cold war or more specifically, the Soviet Union and its imperial ambitions, as one of multiple overarching narratives […]
Prof. Roshini Kempadoo and alumni Sunil Gupta are part of the group exhibition, The World that Belongs to Us opening on Thursday 24 November at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Birmingham. Curated by Aziz Sohail with Head of Exhibitions, Deborah Robinson, this exhibition brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian […]
‘Fixed Images, Unfixed Meanings’, an essay by David Campany, is out now in the book Photography – Real and Imagined, published by Thames & Hudson, Australia/New Zealand. Photography – Real and Imagined interrogates the proposition that photographs are either grounded in reality – a record, a document, a reflection of the world – or the product […]
Following the success of last year’s course, “Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery” returns in 2024. This is a course in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery developed and led by Dr Sara Dominici. Spanning eight weeks, “Inside Out” introduces and explores key themes concerning the photographic sector today. At a time of unprecedented public interest in the […]
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