The discussion considered how the visual translations of ideas through various networked social systems have a major impact on our artistic and curatorial practices; examining how now images are made, distributed, recycled or found; and how curators are curating contemporary artists using new technology to reflect upon its meaning today (e.g. Instagram and Pinterest curating; mass media curating; artistic approaches to online-based photography; etc.)

It explored how the artistic and curatorial act of making, manipulating, distributing and digesting pictures is hybridized by devices like mobile phones, tablets and computers but, also, glasses and game consoles (e.g. how networked technological systems determine what we artistically produce, what we curatorially mediate, and what we absorb as audience)

By inviting specialists and practitioners from diverse backgrounds, On Expansion looked at the ways in which conceptions about photography, art, digital practices and curating are in flux, and how these shifts particularly in the artistic production and curatorial presentation of photography can engender new ways of thinking about archives, collections, exhibitions and display.

Participants: Andrew Prescott, KGL, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, KGL, Anna Reading, KGL, Gillian Youngs, Brighton University, Marialaura Ghidini, University of Sunderland, Gair Dunlop, University of Dundee, Alfredo Cramerotti, Curator and Writer, University of South Wales, Michael Takeo Magruder, artist in residence, KGL

Tech coordination and video: Emma Puente
Location: Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, January 201

Part 1-5 available through: https://vimeo.com/85040796; https://vimeo.com/85046523; https://vimeo.com/85054088; https://vimeo.com/85069770; https://vimeo.com/85069771.