"Is This Water? Immersioni ed esplorazioni nella realtà dominata dagli algoritmi” is part of the program of the side events taking place during the PhotoVogue Festival.
Throughout history, images have been a vital aspect of human existence, requiring tools for their creation. This close bond between images and technology has allowed humans to replicate, study, transform, and symbolise reality, even inventing it. These techniques serve as intermediaries between humans and the world, shaping their relationship with it. Evolving technologies, from digital advancements to AI-generated images, have challenged the original conception we have of photography s boundaries. Whether is through real-world images or AI-generated, or with traditional methods (analog film, for example), photography still maintains its grasp on reality, documenting its interconnected structure.
Bauer students, protagonists of this exhibition, are born in this mixture of reality and simulation, like fish in water, and therefore can risk not to recognise the same water they are swimming into, like in the anecdote narrated by David Foster Wallace in "This is water," with a fish unaware of the existence of water. The students critically experimented with algorithmic simulation, exploiting it, narrating human, intimate relationship, and breaking away from the performance-driven logic that governs the online interactions. The aim is to indagate the place for the human beings in a world that seems no longer in need of them.
“Is This Water? Immersioni ed esplorazioni nella realtà dominata dagli algoritmi”
Opening day: November 18, 16.00
CFP Bauer
via Luigi Soderini, 24
20146, Milano
Here the complete list of the other side events taking place in the same days of the Festival.
- Armani/Silos. "Guy Bourdin: Storyteller". Curated by Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate.
- Condominio. “Twin Spark”. Curated by Giulia Restifo and Alessandro Calabrese . Artists: Anca Adina Bettega, Matteo Capriotti, Caterina Dondi, and Francesca Rossi.
- Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. “Ex Novo. Digestioni a catena”. Artists: Giuseppe Laera and Luigi Notarnicola.
- Leica Galerie. “James’ House” and “Hunting Heart”. Artists: Jacob and Sara Aue Sobol. Curated by Maurizio Beucci and Claudio Composti.
- Micamera. “Swim Till I Sank”. Artist: Gabriele Stabile.
- Perimetro. “MATCH!”. An experimental workshop curated by Perimetro Learn.
- Podbielski Contemporary. “Mirabilia”. Artist: Silvia Camporesi.
- 29 Arts in Progress. “Michel Haddi: Beyond Fashion”.
- Palazzo Reale. “JIMMY NELSON. Humanity”. Curated by Nicolas Ballario and Federica Crivellaro.
- Still Fotografia. "Giorgio Galimberti: alchimia dell’ombra". Curated by Alessandro Curti.
- Monica De Cardenas Gallery. “Stephan Balkenhol” .
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Francesca Marani (Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia), Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Editor, Writer and Curator), Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Content Operations Strategy Manager, Condé Nast) and Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue)
