TalkSeePhotography

For TalkSeePhotography’s October event Saxa Art and Books brings the Finnish Photography Museums Chief Curator Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger to Glasgow. Rastenberger is a popular and challenging speaker. She will talk about the museums work and in specific their exhibition #snapshot which examines online visual habits and how they have changed our perception of the photography. The exhibition is the result of Rastenberger's long term research into the social phenomenon of picture sharing and visual literacy. The result transgresses the limits between art and generic uses of the photography made by ordinary people to be shared on Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, and art commenting on the phenomenon by international artists such as Catherine Balet, Erik Kessels, Niklas Kullström and Sisse Stroyer.

Rastenberger invites us to to take a look at one of the most complex developments in contemporary society and how our anxieties and hopes, despite the huge changes in photographic technology, are expressed in our attempts to use photography online. The exhibition and accompanying book is co-produced with Futurice Oy, University of Tampere School of Communication, Media and Theatre and Alto Universities Department of Media Technology.

TalkSeePhotography is a monthly event with presentations by photography practitioners, curators, and writers which are followed by an open discussion. In the autumn of 2014, TSP launches the first in a series of different international programs with talks and workshops by Scandinavian professionals. These will be interspersed with national presentations and an open call for a project slam.