TALKS
Lock-in vol.11
When: June 8, Saturday
Place: Punta Begoña Galleries (Ereaga dock 6)
Prize: 20€
One of our favourite activities, Lock–in vol. 11 is a whole morning of talks and dialogues in a quiet atmosphere and in a place with no escape, neither for speakers nor for attendees. A space for the review and questioning of contemporary image issues.
Playing with images
9:45 – Presentation and welcome
10:00 – The sense of editing (**English)
Emma Bowkett – Financial Times Weekend Magazine
Jason Fulford – J&L Books
Jon Uriarte – Independent (digital) curator
11:20 – New displays on exhibitions (**Spanish)
Arianna Rinaldo – PhEST
Vítor Nieves – Premio Galiza de Fotografía Contemporánea / Outono Fotográfico
María Ptqk – Getxophoto
12:30 – Coffee break
13:00 – What do we talk about when we talk about digital curation (**English)
Marco de Muttis – Screen Walks / Fotomuseum Winterthur
Catherine Troiano – Victoria & Albert Museum
Jon Uriarte – Screen Walks / The Photographers’ Gallery
EMMA BOWKETT
Director of Photography at Financial Times Weekend Magazine
Emma was born in Birmingham and is based in London. She is Director of Photography at the FT Weekend Magazine and a curator focussed on lens-based arts and contemporary visual culture. With an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths University of London, she is an Associate Lecturer at UAL: University of the Arts London. She regularly participates at international portfolio reviews, festivals, art fairs and awards such as Unseen, Foam Paul Huf or the Kraszner-Krausz Foundation Book Award. Emma is the curator of a Financial Times special supplement and the Photo London talks programme, as well as being one of the directors of Peckham 24, the annual festival that celebrates established and early career artists working with an expanded photographic practice.
Jason Fulford
ARTIST AND EDITOR
Jason was born in Atlanta in 1973 and is based in New York. He is an artist and co-founder of J&L Books. His photographs have been published at many magazines, such as Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, Blind Spot or Aperture Magazine. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association. Monographs of his photography include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), Contains: 3 Books (2016), Clayton’s Ascent (2018), The Medium is a Mess (2018), Picture Summer on Kodak Film (2020) and The Heart Is a Sandwich (2023). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), guest editor of Der Greif Issue 11, editor of Photo No-Nos (2021), and co-editor with Julie Ault and Jordan Weitzman of Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us: Photographs by Corita (2023).
Jon Uriarte
curator of Screen Walks/The Photographers’ Gallery
Jon Uriarte was born in Hondarribia, Basque Country, in 1980. He studied Photography at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics of Catalunya and the ICP of New York. He also holds a master in Projects and Artistic Theories by PhotoEspaña and the European University of Madrid. His work has been exhibited at different galleries and centers such as La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Koldo Mitxelena (Donostia), Studio 304 (New York), HBC center (Berlin) or Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona). He was founder of the independent platform Widephoto and conceptual director of DONE Programme, a project on reflection and visual creation promoted by Foto Colectania. He has been curator of Getxophoto Festival (2020–2022) and digital curator at The Photographers’ Gallery (2019–2023). Currently, Jon co-curates Screen Walks, a series of live-streamed explorations of digital spaces. A collaboration between Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery.
arIANNA RINALDO
Independent curator, consultant and freelance photo editor
Her relationship with photography started in New York as Archive director at Magnum Photos (1998–2001), work which she continued in Italy until 2004. She was photo editor of Colors magazine (2001–2004), as well as director for 9 years of the documentary photography magazine OjodePez (La Fábrica). She has been photography consultant for D, the weekly magazine of La Repubblica (2008–2011), artistic director of the Cortona on the Move festival in Tuscany (2012–2021) and since 2016 she is the photography curator at PhEST, contemporary art festival (Monopoli). Arianna continues to develop photographic projects internationally, as well as giving lectures, workshops and mentorship sessions. She is on the selection committee of the British Journal of Photography Ones to Watch, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
VÍTOR NIEVES
Curator, professor, researcher AND editor
He is co-founder and coordinator of the Galiza Award for Contemporary Photography, which he curates and produces, artistic director of the Outono Fotográfico Association and guest curator of the Encontros da Imagem. He has curated over 100 exhibitions and shows for festivals such as Encontros da Imagem de Braga, Imago Lisboa, Mês da Imagem do Porto, and f/est Amarante; Photoalicante; Fòrum Fotogràfic Can Basté and Emotiva or Paraty em Foco and Encontros de Agosto, as well as for various galleries, public centers, and institutions. Nieves is the pedagogical director of the Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem (IPCI), where he also teaches curatorial courses in the Master’s program in Artistic Photography. He is also a teacher at Escuela Mistos, photography instructor at the City Council of O Barco de Valdeorras, and mentor in the Curriculum Plan on Contemporary Image of Fortaleza. As an editor, her work stands out in the OF collection of photography books from the publishing house Difusora de Letras, Artes e Ideas, as well as several photobooks for other publishers. As an author, he has published Don’t look at my camera and her latest publication is an investigation on Romasanta, the Galician werewolf.
María Ptqk
cultural researcher and curator of Getxophoto
Born in Bilbao in 1976, María Ptqk holds a PhD in Artistic Research, as well as degrees in Law, Economics, DEA in International Public Law and Cultural Law, and a Master’s in Cultural Management. Her work focuses on the intersections between arts and technoscientific culture. She has collaborated with renowned institutions such as Medialab Prado, Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, CCCB, Jeu de Paume, La Gaité Lyrique, and GenderArtNet. Some of the exhibitions she has curated include À propos du Chthulucène et de ses espèces camarades (Espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume), Ciencia fricción. Vida entre especies compañeras (CCCB and Azkuna Zentroa), Extinción Remota Detectada (LABoral) or Máquinas de ingenio (Tabakalera), among others. She is an advisor for the Chaire Arts & Sciences (École polytechnique, l’École des Arts Décoratifs–PSL, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso) and a member of the programming committee for ISEA Paris 2023 (International Symposium on Electronic Art).
CATHERINE TROIANO
Curator of Photography at Victoria & Albert Museum
Catherine Troiano lives and works in London. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Visual Culture from De Montfort University, Leicester. She was the first curator of photography at the National Trust and is currently curator of photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in contemporary and digital practices. She is co-curator of the contemporary programme and leads the digital programme for the V&A’s Photography section, which includes acquisitions, exhibitions, commissions and research. She has worked on major projects at the V&A, including the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society Collection (2016-2017) and the launch of the V&A Centre for Photography (2018-2023). He regularly publishes on aspects of contemporary photography, curatorial practice, digital culture and institutional history.
MARCO DE MUTIIS
Digital curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur/SCREEN WALKS
He was born in Trento, Italy, in 1983. Marco De Mutiis is a Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland where he leads the museum research on algorithmic and networked forms of vision and image-making. He leads and co-curates different projects and platforms expanding the role and the space of the museum. These include the collaborative live stream programme Screen Walks (developed and co-curated with Jon Uriarte), as well as the current experimental platform [permanent beta] The Lure of the Image. He is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at South Bank University where he focuses on the relationship between computer games and photography. He has written, edited and contributed to several publications, including the recent book Screen Images – In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast (co-edited with Winfried Gerling and Sebastian Möring). He lectures and teaches regularly in different institutions and schools, including ECAL and Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Design.
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