Media Art x Photography
The art of photography is inextricably linked to technological innovation. The invention of the Kodak camera radically changed what could be photographed and by whom; when photography entered the digital realm, that democratization saw exponential growth. Today anyone with a smartphone can photograph anything anytime, instantly share their photographic art with anyone anywhere, and manipulate the reality they’ve documented in myriad ways. In this third unit of the Crash Course, we look at how media artists explore, use and misuse new possibilities in photography to reflect on these developments and challenge what photography is and can be.

A Crash Course in Art & Media Technology
With society increasingly shaped by media technologies, it’s important that more people actively join in the public debate around those technologies. Art has the potential to invite a wider audience into that debate and offer it new perspectives. To facilitate this, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media provides the annual Crash Course in Art & Media Technology. In the upcoming third season of the course, we’ll turn our focus to the places where media art and the visual arts intersect. In four connected modules, we’ll cover the impact media art has had on painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking.