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“Lament for the Death of Photography (Live Version). Lily Fowler with ANU x Photoaccess R&D Lab”
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On the evening of the 15th of June, on a cold midwinter night, PhotoAccess joined students from The Australian National University’s School of Arts and Design to host a funeral and memorial service to celebrate the life of Photography.
In a moving eulogy delivered by ANU Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, mourners attending were urged to wait until the coroner’s report was released, to avoid speculating whether the medium's demise was to be blamed on artificial intelligence or Instagram.
Friends and family of the deceased were invited to share words, amongst them art historian Dr Martyn Jolly and curator Virginia Rigby of Canberra Museum and Gallery. ANU student and emerging artist Claire Fletcher spoke of Photography as her first love, and her pain on discovering Photography had pulled others into its web of lies, promising them truth, transparency and liberation.
As the pallbearers took Photography to its final resting place amongst the candlelight, a haunting lament for Photography, shared here, was performed by Lily Fowler with David Burke on guitar.
Mourners were invited inside the Gallery to share their memories of the deceased, and hear the international photography community share their thoughts on Photography’s demise via video, including Joanna Zylinska (artist and media theorist), Penelope Umbrico (artist), Adrian Sauer (artist), Brett Rogers (Curator and former Director of The Photographer’s Gallery), Andrew Dewdney (author, Forget Photography) and Boris Eldagsen (promptographer).
A further Gallery presented a timeline of Photography’s life and achievements, from its initial murder of painting to its multiple own technical deaths. Mourners were invited to share their thoughts on what will replace photography, before stepping into a multi-screen video installation containing a caucophany of mourning YouTube photo-daddies, animals uprising against Photography in the wild, and Facetune tutorials.
RIP Photography. Again.
Video produced by Chris Walsh
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On the evening of the 15th of June, on a cold midwinter night, PhotoAccess joined students from The Australian National University’s School of Arts and Design to host a funeral and memorial service to celebrate the life of Photography.
In a moving eulogy delivered by ANU Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, mourners attending were urged to wait until the coroner’s report was released, to avoid speculating whether the medium's demise was to be blamed on artificial intelligence or Instagram.
Friends and family of the deceased were invited to share words, amongst them art historian Dr Martyn Jolly and curator Virginia Rigby of Canberra Museum and Gallery. ANU student and emerging artist Claire Fletcher spoke of Photography as her first love, and her pain on discovering Photography had pulled others into its web of lies, promising them truth, transparency and liberation.
As the pallbearers took Photography to its final resting place amongst the candlelight, a haunting lament for Photography, shared here, was performed by Lily Fowler with David Burke on guitar.
Mourners were invited inside the Gallery to share their memories of the deceased, and hear the international photography community share their thoughts on Photography’s demise via video, including Joanna Zylinska (artist and media theorist), Penelope Umbrico (artist), Adrian Sauer (artist), Brett Rogers (Curator and former Director of The Photographer’s Gallery), Andrew Dewdney (author, Forget Photography) and Boris Eldagsen (promptographer).
A further Gallery presented a timeline of Photography’s life and achievements, from its initial murder of painting to its multiple own technical deaths. Mourners were invited to share their thoughts on what will replace photography, before stepping into a multi-screen video installation containing a caucophany of mourning YouTube photo-daddies, animals uprising against Photography in the wild, and Facetune tutorials.
RIP Photography. Again.
Video produced by Chris Walsh
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