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November 2021

Curating Digital Art

What is the role of the curator when organising digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analysing the influence and impact of curating digital art, this book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists, and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understanding art's stewardsh
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November 2019

NOTES ON ARCHIVES 2 – CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS

Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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June 2021

Col de l’échelle

Between the Aiguille Rouge and the Rochers de la Sueur, on the Franco-Italian border of the narrow valley, to cross the difficult passage called Le Mauvais Pas, there was a ladder. It had been built there to facilitate access to this point where the Alps force you to walk vertically. Alternate to the new road, the path is still as steep. A staircase now replaces the old ladder and preserves the accessible strait. Today, in
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October 2021

A Life Full of Holes / The Strait Project

Since it was published in 2005, this book has become a cult classic. Yto Barrada's work poetically explores issues of migration, diaspora, access and exclusion. The Strait of Gibraltar has become one of the main gateways for illegal immigration into Europe. Barrada, a Parisian-born photographer of Moroccan heritage, captures a mood of longing, weariness and alienation in this book. She asks the question: what is the condition of a country whose people are all leaving,
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September 2020

Bakeca

Bakeca is a photographic research on exhibitionism as a form of sexual expression, made by Marco P. Valli and Anna Adamo between 2014 and 2016 in Italy. Through an ad on a well-known adult encounters website, the authors gained access to the life and the intimate spaces of the subjects who had been until then open in the semi-private dimension of the web, and in public spaces known for this type of encounters. The goal of the
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November 2019

NOTES ON ARCHIVES 1 – OBTUSE, FLITTING BY, AND IN SPITE OF ALL – IMAGE ARCHIVES IN PRACTICE

Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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