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Aesthetic Journalism: Reality and its Representation, 2010
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The 'Academic Discourse' series of public talks aims at deepening the understanding of photography beyond a mere mechanical reproduction by a common gadget, but as a medium that influence the way we perceive the world, and essentially a part of our lives.
Over the past five years Alfredo Cramerotti has written about the aesthetic merger of contemporary visual art & photography practices and the news media. By adopting the ubiquitous tropes of graphic mapping and Magnum style photography, an increasing number of photographers and artists have borrowed from these visual languages to present their work in a context closely aligned with investigative journalism. Drawing from his recent book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009, Intellect), Cramerotti will speak about the growing overlap between global news media and contemporary visual practices.
Date/Time: Sat 16 October 2010, 2pm – 3pm
Venue: Singapore Art Museum, Glass Hall
Limited to 50 pax
Speaker: Alfredo Cramerotti
Symposium: How to Inform without Informing, 2010
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To celebrate the launch of two new commissions, Collective devised a symposium which took place on 30th July 2010 featuring exhibiting artists Hito Steyerl, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth. Other speakers included theorist Alfredo Cramerotti (author of Aesthetic Journalism), Francis McKee (curator and writer), Lisa Panting (Director of Picture This, Bristol) and Collective director Kate Gray. The symposium was chaired by Ian White (LUX, London) and was held at the City Observatory atop Calton Hill.
MANIFESTA 8 | Collective Curating: Means in Common, 2010
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MANIFESTA 8 | Collective Curating: Means in Common
Participants:
Alfredo Cramerotti, Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), Denmark, Italy, Lebanon, Member of the M8 Curatorial Collective
Esther Regueira, General Coordinator, Manifesta 8, Murcia
Georg Schöllhammer, Member of the collective tranzit.org, Central Europe
Enjoy Poverty: Screening and Conversation with Alfredo Cramerotti and Renzo Martens, 2010
Nottingham Contemporary's screening and talk about Renzo Marten’s performance-cum-documentary, a challenging experience for the viewer. Shot in the Congo, it suggests that local photographers would be better off selling pictures of suffering to Western news agencies, rather than continuing their humble portrait studios. “Martens is keen to expose the relation of power between those who watch and those who are being watched,” stated the curator Alfredo Cramerotti, author of Aesthetic Journalism. Cramerotti will discuss this provocative film with Martens after the screening. Both will take questions from the audience.
Aesthetic Journalism, photography and information strategies, 2010
talk, presentation, screening
Talk at the New York International Photo Festival on the concept of 'Aesthetic Journalism' and its practical application/related issues in the world of professional photography and photo reporters.
Image courtesy of Michael Wolf (who was before me in the lineup of presentations and with whom I shared an interesting chat afterwards)