An exploration of generative photographic strategies
artist talk by Dries Segers
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Lange Zaal, Academy
- 19:00: guided tour in the exhibition 'Moving the Photogram' by curator Steven Humblet
- 19:30: artist talk by Dries Segers
In this lecture, researcher Dries Segers (research group Thinking Tools) focusses on the generative possibilities of image-making as part of his research project Ask your hands to know the things they hold. Central in this lecture is the activation and use of natural and earthly matters, self-developed technologies, the position of individual authorship, key historical figures, and Segers’ personal research.
Ask your hands to know the things they hold dives into the challenges of ecological thinking while being engaged in artistic production. How can you co-create with non-human actors and share (or even give away) authorship? How to use this paradigm shift to change what and how you visualise?
Segers will share a curated selection of contemporary and historical artworks that were generated through earthly co-existence. He will focus on his self-made photographic technique, the Mudgram, and other work that is part of the exhibition 'Moving the Photogram' in De Lange Zaal. He will highlight his experiences of having a radically material practice as a photographer, in a time when photography is becoming hyper-digital.
(image: waste/land, Dries Segers, 2024, chromatographic paper, paperclips, polluted soil samples, different sizes )
→ This event is part of the research festival ARTICULATE 2024 I ANONYMOUS CREATIVITY - ART WITHOUT ARTISTS
