What about photography?

Images in the post-photographic era
What about photography?
Online

 

A four-lesson journey into new image types and possible relationships “between species”.

When: 24 January - 07 March 2023
Enrolment: 03 October - 10 January 2023
Attendance requirements: online | Tuesday, 8pm - 10pm

Technological transformations linked to the so-called digital revolution have changed image production and usage methods to the point of making the word “photography” problematic or even totally obsolete. Boundaries between disciplines become blurred, images become hybrid, new entities make way in the visual arena. The course traces these transformations, looking at the post-photographic arena as an open and changing space for trying out and imagining new types of relationship with or through images. The course explores the new creative possibilities offered by this changed context by inviting us to challenge what we traditionally know about photography, also thanks to the participation of artists whose work is some of the most significant in this direction on the Italian panorama.

Teachers

What you will learn

-    to un-learn photography

-    to understand what is happening in the world of images

-    to ask “what possibilities does it create?” instead of “what is it?”

-    to imagine beyond the given reality

What you will need

-    Internet connection

-    to be willing to challenge your certainties

-    to be open to deal with the unknown, the unusual, the elusive

Programme

Programma delle lezioni

Farewell photography? Main changes in image production and usage. Expansions of the photographic, new definitions and outlooks.

Guest Alessandro Sambini

Melting the boundaries between reality and virtual: becoming and being with images.

Guest Simone Santilli (The Cool Couple)

Image as assemblage: the soft image and computational image, the architectural complex image and atmospheric images.

Guest Giovanna Repetto

Synaesthetic approaches and ultra-human alliances. How to approach images using other senses to sight? Which non-human subjects partake in the life of images?

Guest Silvia Bigi

Info and enrolment
When: 24 January - 07 March 2023
Enrolment: 03 October - 10 January 2023
Attendance requirements: online | Tuesday, 8pm - 10pm