Melting Ice | Rising Tides at Towner, Eastbourne
Stunning new show at Towner, Eastbourne.
My Brothers cats
A member of the ‘Kharkiv School of Photography,’ Sergiy Bratkov’s work is uncompromising in processing ‘the horrors of war in his former homeland without sinking into hopelessness.’
Anna Ridler, Bloemenveiling, 2019
Has to be said, Dawn is a huge fan of Anna’s work and has followed it’s development over the last few years.
Bloemenveiling was an online auction of short GAN generated videos of tulips; it used smart contracts on the Ethereum network to sell the work and bots to help drive speculative prices. The piece was made in collaboration with David Pfau, an artificial intelligence researcher, and is the third in a series of work that looks at the relationship of the tulip to speculation, hype and value. Through the use of these types of technologies, which are increasingly embedded across different types of markets, it interrogates the way technology drives human desire and economic dynamics through artificial scarcity. It was created as an artwork, for a gallery show, but was a fully functioning distributed app (dApp), existing as a working example of what it also critiques.
What is Truth? Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
Addressing a key issue for our time ‘What is Truth?’ investigates how we know what is true in the technological era.
Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St Giles
Built in the late 16th century, Milton’s Cottage has an extraordinary story and a wonderful literary garden to explore.
Kelmscott Manor, Lechlade
Explore William Morris’ ‘Heaven on Earth.’
Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver – just re-opened
Re-imagined and re-opened a great centre to explore if you are lucky enough to be in Vancouver.
Foam, Amsterdam
https://www.foam.org/One of Dawn’s favourite places – a wonderfully multifaceted photography museum in Amsterdam.