6pm Wednesday 15 July – Irish Time

Conor McGarrigle’s Screen Walk will look at the relationships between algorithms, data and images through the lens of two of his internet projects separated by a decade, the BitTorrent Trilogy and 24hour Social. McGarrigle will expose how internet protocols and video codecs came together in the BitTorrent Trilogy to visualise the hidden sociality of file sharing swarms with images of often striking beauty. Ten years later, for 24hour Social, the artist downloaded a full day of videos, with one video for every second, from the now defunct Vine video sharing social platform. At one level a celebration of individual creativity, shared memes and the weird internet, the project shows how data underpins everything, as social media platforms use the generation and circulation of images to surveil and track their users. 

This Screen Walk is presented in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers Gallery London. Check out the full PhotoIreland Festival Programme

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6pm Saturday 18 July – Irish Time

Join us for the launch of OVER Journal with contributor Aidan Kelly Murphy in conversation with artist Heather Agyepong, and co-editor Ángel Luis González, followed by a screening of artist Theo Ellison’s latest work.

OVER is a new international publication from PhotoIreland that proposes its readers a more wholesome, honest, and critical observation and enjoyment of lens-based, contemporary practices, with visual culture and critical thinking at its core.

The issue is currently available to pre-order exclusively online at thelibraryproject.ie and will be available from The Library Project from the day of launch.

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Screen Intervention The fish don't see the water
6pm Sunday 19 July – Irish Time

Mexican and Swedish artist Geraldine Juárez critically assembles the history of the Google Cultural Institute in relation to colonial and imperial practices of prospecting, documenting and exhibiting, which are crucial to render the imaginaries that consolidated power of the West and its institutions. Her screen intervention The fish don’t see the water Juárez contextualises the data-prospecting of art historical collections and its architectures executed by the Google Culture Institute in the form of philanthropy, thus mirroring the very practices from which they emerged.

The second presentation of The Googlified Image, presented as part of the current exhibition SITUATIONS/The Right to Look and PhotoIreland Festival 2020: ON/OFF, the curatorial team of Fotomuseum Winterthur in collaboration with PhotoIreland, invited the artists Geraldine Juárez and Mario Santamaría to critically look at the hidden power dynamics behind the Google Arts & Culture Project. Check out the full PhotoIreland Festival Programme

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9 July-16 August
At The Library Project
Hours Wed-Fri 11am-6pm | Sat-Sun 12-4pm

The Tokyo International Photography Competition returns for its seventh edition, with the winners travelling showcase making a stop at The Library Project. The TIPC was created by Photoville and the Tokyo Institute of Photography to provide an opportunity for photographers to present their artistic visions beyond their country’s borders. Each year, a jury composed of international photography professionals select eight photographers whose work is exhibited as part of an international traveling exhibition. This year, the work will be exhibited in Taiwan, Japan, USA, and Ireland.

Visitors will discover the works of the following TIPC 2020 finalists:

• Hashem Shakeri, An Elegy for the Death of Hamun —Grand Prix Winner
• Gregg Segal, 7 Days of Garbage
• Turjoy Chowdhury, Breathing on the Brink
• Acacia Johnson, Sea Ice Stories
• Ciril Jazbec, The Ice Stupas
• Charlotta María Hauksdóttir, Imprints
• Ryota Kajita, Ice Formation
• Robin Michals, Our Neighborhood

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