Goethe Institut Glasgow Lunch Bytes Structures and Textures: Archive/Database

Lunch Bytes is a series of discussions which examine the increasing ubiquity of digital technologies in relation to artistic practices. In 2014, the Goethe-Institut Glasgow and CCA collectively present three events, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic. International artists, scholars, designers, curators and intellectuals are invited to give short presentations before engaging in a panel discussion.

The first edition of Lunch Bytes Glasgow, Archive/Database, inquires into the nature of the database, asking how information is ‘archived’, processed and ordered in our networked environment, as well as examining how this is affecting our material reality. It invites artists who work with sets of data and have come up with new ways of structuring, re-appropriating and bundling (visual) information to present their works. Furthermore, it asks how archiving artefacts has changed with the rise of digital technologies and discusses the challenges contemporary art collection faces today.

The event brings together:

• Kathrin Becker, responsible for Video-Forum, the video collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein


• Andrew Hoskins, Interdisciplinary Research Professor in College of Social Sciences - Global Security, University of Glasgow


• Yuri Pattison, artist, Berlin


• Stephen Sutcliffe, artist, Glasgow

Lunch Bytes Glasgow is part of a larger project organized by a number of Goethe Institutes in Northwest Europe. In close collaboration with local partners, the Goethe Institutes in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, Helsinki, London and Stockholm will set up discussions about art and digital culture. The project will culminate in an international symposium to be held in Berlin in 2015.