From Ore to Bits: Image Making and Extractivism

In conjunction with the exhibition Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production, Lisa Barnard and Simon Denny will talk about the relationship between image making and various forms of value mining — from data to gold — based on their current projects.

• 30.10.22
• 15:00 - 16:00

Exhibition

Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production at MK&G Hamburg, is dedicated to the material history of key resources used for image production, addressing the social and political context of their extraction and waste and its relation to climate change.

Contributors

Ignacio Acosta, Lisa Barnard, F& D Cartier, Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio (Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke, Richard Nielsen), Klasse Digitale Grafik HFBK (Mari Lebanidze, Cleo Miao, Leon Schwer und Marco Wesche), Susanne Kriemann, Mary Mattingly, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Lisa Rave, Alison Rossiter, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Anaïs Tondeur, James Welling, Noa Yafe, Tobias Zielony. Curated Esther Reulfs and Boaz Levin.

Exhibition runs from 15.7.22 – 31.10.22.