Online lectures: 

1. Contemporary Digital Photography and the Phenomenon of the Personal Archive

David Waterworth, Curator and Researcher, University of Greenwich

This lecture focuses on the phenomenon of the personal archives that we all generate daily on our cell phones, adding to the broad matrix of the world's digital archive. Drawingfrom the ideas of visual culture researcher Walter Benjamin, the lecture investigates several digital personal archives and offers to apply detected trends to the cultural context of publicity. 

2. Online tour of the exhibition of works by Mark Power

Maria Korolkova, DPhil, Associate Professor at the School of Design and Academic Lead for Media Portfolio at the University of Greenwich

3. Talk on the exhibition of contemporary British photography and video art

Alexandra Maximova, curator of the exibitions "Festival of Contemporary British Photography", ROSPHOTO 

Lecture at the Museum: 

Photography as a Means in Contemporary British Culture

19 February 2022, 14:30 

ROSPHOTO

Maria Korolkova, DPhil, Associate Professor at the School of Design and Academic Lead for Media Portfolio at the University of Greenwich

Maria Korolkova will talk about the latest trends in the use of photographic and digital imagery in contemporary British culture and media art, including the visualization of big data, surveillance techniques, and the process of taking photographs using robots and algorithms without human involvement. This lecture will also attempt to explore what photography as a medium of representation means within contemporary culture, taking into account recent technological advances.

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