Events
Three events on digital and visual culture.
Starting in June 2018, digital | visual | cultural hosted a series of workshops and lectures at the intersection of digital and visual culture.
The series was built around a simple wager: that the visual is not a secondary layer added to digital technology, but one of the ways digital technology becomes social, political and cultural. Each event paired a public lecture with a workshop, panel or set of conversations.
The three events moved from surveillance and the politics of recognition, through the publics convened by digital visualising technologies in cities and heritage organisations, to the proliferation of three dimensional visual technologies. The records below include the original programmes, recaps, videos and social media histories.
Event index
How the series worked
A lecture, a room, a record.
Each event opened with a public lecture and continued the next day in a smaller workshop or panel. The format was designed to keep the discussion concrete: a shared text, a shared room and enough time for disagreement.
Public lecture
A keynote address open to students, researchers and the public.
Workshop
A smaller working session with invited scholars and practitioners.
Archive
Programme notes, videos and recaps collected after each event.
Reference image. Digital visualising technologies gather different kinds of publics around screens, maps and data.
Digital images are everywhere now, offering a seamless, networked, luminescent and zoomable visuality.Digital | Visual | Cultural, project statement