Course: Rules of Engagement: Photography, Moving Image and the Digital Space

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Creatives are increasingly turning toward digital technologies to find expression and to circulate their work more widely. The move to innovate online has accelerated exponentially in the wake of Covid-19. This shift has implications beyond the8 current global health pandemic, however, and the nature of our cultural engagement is changing indelibly. This course takes the ‘digital turn’ as a starting point to address and interrogate the possibilities and challenges for artworks, publics and institutions.

Through close readings, presentations and discussion, the course will be supported by key texts on the development of the photographic image in the digital age and theories surrounding access, visibility and digital territories for culture on the internet. It also provides an invitation to challenge existing infrastructures that support the production, distribution and reception of photography by inviting participants to present project proposals to the rest of the group.

Led by curator and writer Lynton Talbot, Rules of Engagement is particularly developed for artists, researchers, photographers, curators and other cultural producers. It aims to develop an expanded and expanding understanding and critique of digital space in these increasingly complex times for photography and moving image.