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Lunch Bytes (24) Society: Image Excess

Sunday, 21 September 2014, 1 - 3pm Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam Panel discussion with: Jörg Heiser (art critic, Berlin), Katja Novitskova (artist, Amsterdam), Kate Steciw (artist, New York) , Hito Steyerl (artist, writer, Berlin) Moderated by Marcel Feil (Deputy Director of artistic affairs Foam, Amsterdam) and Melanie Bühler (curator Lunch Bytes, Amsterdam) Our contemporary world is saturated with images, whose nature is increasingly digital. We interact through images by sharing, adapting, tagging, and commenting on them at an ever-accelerating pace. We accumulate a steady flow of images on our smart phones, after which they can be digitally modified according to our aesthetic preferences and then posted on social media platforms. Never before have images been more available to view, alter, and appropriate, generating practices that convey an unprecedented connection between image production, distribution, and consumption. How can we cope with the excess of visual information and the permanent call for ocular attention? What is at stake when we measure ourselves against the digital images that continually surround us? This edition of the Lunch Bytes series investigates the state of the image in today's digitized culture by raising a number of explorative and critical questions: How have digital technologies impacted our ways of interacting with/through images? How do images spread and accumulate power in digital spaces? What kind of interfaces and databases are utilized to organize and shape these vast amounts of visual material? And how have artists dealt with the changing form and function of the (digital) image? http://www.lunch-bytes.com/events/pas...