New Tools in Photography: From Google to the Algorithm
September 4th, 6.00 p.m. at VAA Nida Art Colony (E.A.Jonušo str. 3) there is the opening of the group exhibition New Tools in Photography: From Google to the Algorithm. The curator of the exhibition Paul Paper will be present.
New Tools in Photography: From Google to the Algorithm explores how programmes, apps and AI-related technologies shape and change the discourse of photography, challenging traditional boundaries of the medium.
Various programmes and services – Google, Photoshop, Flickr, Snapchat, visual recognition, etc. – provide new tools to conceive image-making and think photographically. Technological interfaces not only deliver instruments for making work but can become the very logic for creating photographic series.
At the VAA Nida Art Colony (E.A.Jonušo g. 3) 4 p.m. the will be opening of Kassel Dummy Award
2018 book exhibition. Its organizer and curator Dieter Neubert will be present at the opening.
The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD features the best drafts of photobook mock-ups by outstanding emerging talents yearly since 2010.
This year a total of 391 photobooks from 46 countries from all over the world, from Bangladesh to Norway, from Russia to Australia, from Japan to America, from China to Brazil were sent in to the 2018 KASSEL DUMMY AWARD.
The shortlist selection resulted in 53 photobooks as chosen by Valentina Abenavoli (Akina Books, Istanbul), Anne-Katrin Bicher (Montag Stiftung, Bonn), Sonia Berger (Dalpine Publishers, Madrid), Frederic Lezmi (Photographer, The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne), Dieter Neubert (Fotobookfestival Kassel), Markus Schaden (The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne), Andrea Schmidt (Verlag Kettler, Dortmund), Salvatore Vitale (Editor in Chief of YET Magazine, Lausanne).
These 53 photobook dummies selected in 2018 will be on display at PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin, Fotobookfestival in Kassel, Triennial of Photography in Hamburg, Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid, FotoLeggendo Festival in Rome, Organ Vida - International Photography Festival in Zagreb, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Cologne during the Internationale Photoszene Koln, International Photography Symposium in Nida, Aarhus Photobook Week, Zentralbibliothek im Kulturpalast in Dresden, The Tokyo Art Book Fair.
Three winners were selected by the main jury at the KASSEL FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL and announced at the documenta-Halle in Kassel on 2 June 2018. The winner of the First Prize will be produced and published by Verlag Kettler, Germany.
Vytautas Balčytis. Photographs
Opening - on the 6 th of September, at 16.00, in Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario str. 53). From Edmondas Kelmickas (e.k.art gallery) collection
Vytautas Balčytis is well known middle generation Lithuanian photographer, who started to work in 80’s of last century. Critics of photography would ascribe him to the tendencies of “banal object” or “boredom” in photography. He started to participate in exhibitions with such photographers as Remigijus Pačėsa, Gintautas Trimakas or Alfonsas Budvytis.
Vytautas Balčytis is a quiet, patient observer whose eye picks up all that is insignificant, plain, leftover or forgotten. He tells his stories in whispers, endowing his modest pictures of seemingly random things with existential importance. The titles of his works, which note only places and dates, could be fragments of journal entries. Looking at a Balčytis photograph is like sifting through or awakening the memories of people who lived through the late Soviet era.
