event
24
oct '24
Images as Allies: Archiving, Storytelling, and the Power of Digital Memory
Images as Allies: Archiving, Storytelling, and the Power of Digital Memory
Every day, we consume hundreds of images. We use them, ignore them, absorb, object and devour them. They are the digital material that shapes our online worlds, seducing us into the pull of our devices.
Images hold the power to activate, surprise, motivate, rebel, and confuse. They have their own agency. Yet, the fragility of digital information means these images, like so much of what we encounter online, are vulnerable to being lost, forgotten, or distorted. Archiving these overlooked and forgotten corners of the internet is a way of preserving not only the beautiful but also the strange, uncanny, and whimsical—the weird and the "lol" moments that give texture to our digital lives.
In this workshop, we will speculate on the agency of images and explore how creating our own image archives can become a personal act of remembrance. By writing stories from the perspective of the image, we will get up close and personal with specific images from our collections, preserving them in ways that ensure they’re not discarded or forgotten. We will try to see how images see us, exploring what it might feel like to *be* an image. What would an image say about how it is handled, used, thrown away, plotted against, ignored, overlooked, weaponised, or profoundly misunderstood?
Through collective dialogue and speculation, we will tap into how story-making can be a form of resistance against the fleeting nature of the digital world.
24th October
9:30 - 12:30 Workshop
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and discussion
AHK Culture Club, Marineterrein, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Gebouw 027 K, Amsterdam
Limited capacity.
Make sure to register on time by clicking here
In this workshop, we will speculate on the agency of images and explore how creating our own image archives can become a personal act of remembrance. By writing stories from the perspective of the image, we will get up close and personal with specific images from our collections, preserving them in ways that ensure they’re not discarded or forgotten. We will try to see how images see us, exploring what it might feel like to *be* an image. What would an image say about how it is handled, used, thrown away, plotted against, ignored, overlooked, weaponised, or profoundly misunderstood?
Through collective dialogue and speculation, we will tap into how story-making can be a form of resistance against the fleeting nature of the digital world.
24th October
9:30 - 12:30 Workshop
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and discussion
AHK Culture Club, Marineterrein, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Gebouw 027 K, Amsterdam
Limited capacity.
Make sure to register on time by clicking here
Elki is a visual artist, researcher, writer and photo-editor. She is captivated by the accumulation, circulation and consumption of images in the digital age. In her practice she works with found images and uses them as a medium through which she researches topics like the philosophy of photograhy, image culture, image phenomena and technology. Examples of work are image assemblages, video renderings, techno fiction stories and zines. She is also the co-initiator of the Input Party, a project on the personal image collections of artists and is co-creator of the zine series SAD MEN. Next to this she also gives workshops, lectures and works as a photo-editor for De Volkskrant.
Slow AI focuses on developing methodologies for reimagining AI and algorithmic systems. It is a project initiated by Mariana Fernández Mora and a collaboration between the Visual Methodologies Collective (HvA) and the Sandberg Institute (GRA). This project is kindly funded by CoECI. The program includes monthly public research sessions where an invited artist, duo or collective, explore slow notions related to technology. Make sure to subscribe to the Artificial Worlds mailing list to receive updates and invitations to all events by clicking here.
