Talk
Taisuke Koyama in conversation with Gemma Padley
20 May 2016
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
London, United Kingdom
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Light Field 042, 2015, Archival Pigment Print © Taisuke Koyama. Courtesy of G/P gallery, Tokyo
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NONAGON PHOTON, 2015 *Capture from video work © Taisuke Koyama. Courtesy of G/P gallery, Tokyo
Exhibition
Generated Images by Taisuke Koyama
15 Apr 2016 – 27 May 2016
Event times
Monday–Friday 9.30am–5pm
(except public holidays)
Cost of entry
Free, please book your attendance to PV and Artist Talk at:
http://www.dajf.org.uk/events/booking-form
Address
- 13/14 Cornwall Terrace
- London
- NW1 4QP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 2, 13, 18, 27, 30, 74, 82, 113, 139, 189 and 274
- Tube: Baker St.
Event map
Taisuke Koyama’s exhibition, Generated Images, thematises the possibilities of photographic expression in the post-digital era. He aims to provide a space for audiences to experience ‘environmentalised’ images in the form of the tangible objects and data created by digital devices.
About
In the most recent years of the post-Internet era, there has been increasing interconnectivity between the virtual and the real. In photography, this has coincided with the advancement of digital camera and printing technology. As a result, photography is about to enter a radically new transitional period. Digital photography generates images by converting light into data, unlike analogue photography, which fixes the light on a film via physical substances. The concepts of ‘original’ and ‘critical moments’ have been gradually replaced by a sense of replication, synthesis, re-editing and re-composing, sorting and sharing by tags and keywords…. infinite intervention in the images.
When photographs are shared and data edited with unprecedented scale and freedom, how can an image actually be created? How are we experiencing it and feeding it back into the surrounding environment? One of the most important challenges for contemporary photographers is to review the possibilities of the ‘new freedom’ that photography has acquired. In his first solo show in London, Koyama tries to explore the potential of photographic media through ‘indeterminacy’ and the replication of images.
The exhibition is supported by the Arts Council Tokyo and Sony Europe.
Private View: 14 April 2016, 6-8pm
Special Opening : 21 May 2016, 10am–5pm
Artist Talk: 20 May 2016, 2pm
The artist will be joined by Gemma Padley, freelance photography journalist and editor, and Projects Editor at British Journal of Photography.
