REC

Getxophoto International Image Festival, Getxo Bilbao, Spain
Curator: María Ptqk
Artists: Yevonde, Zofia Rydet, Arno Gisinger, José Ramón Ais, Natacha de Mahieu, John Divola, Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang, Satoshi Fujiwara, Federico Vespignani, Sabiha Çimen, Ann Shelton, Sybille Neumeyer, Martín Bollati, Estampa, Rosa Lacavalla, RYBN.ORG, Anna Barea, Marc Lee
https://www.getxophoto.com/

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REC
The struggle between different ways of using photography is not a struggle over truth, as if that were a given, but a struggle over the ways of being with others.
Ariella Azoulay

First we pressed PAUSE, then PLAY, and now we press the REC button. The abbreviation for Record, which usually appears as a red circle on our screens, refers to a register, to memory, to the story of the past, and to images as a witness to reality. The relationship between image and record is a central debate in visual studies, one that has been addressed by the great names of the theory of photography such as Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag and Georges Didi-Huberman. But what is left of this debate today in relation to contemporary technologies? What is the difference between accumulating archives and telling a story? What is the future of the image –and of memory constructed through visual recording– in a world of extreme, immaterial, manipulable and seemingly infinite REC?

Exhibited Artwork

Friends

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

In December 2018, NVIDIA shook the world by showing how easily Artificial Intelligence can create ultra-realistic portraits of people who do not exist. Friends leverages the results of this research and offers an immersive experience experimenting with the massive amount of AI-generated content. Using a mobile phone, countless faces are generated and stare at the user from all directions. All more …

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HEK, Basel

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