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Dr Sylvia Theuri, curator Ian Sergeant and Professor Mike Phillips discuss and unpack Donald Rodney’s Autoicon.
What does it mean for an artist to represent themselves visually in the digital space? How can Rodney’s work speak to contemporary experiences of navigating digital spaces? Can we read Autoicon as a digital site of resistance?
- Ian has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University. He is currently a Midlands 3 Cities AHRC funded PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. His practice-based research is titled Visual Representations and Cultural (Re) Constructions of Black British Masculinities in 21st Century Birmingham.
- Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at University of Plymouth, and the Director of Research at i-DAT.org, an Open Research Lab for playful experimentation with creative technology.
#13waysoflooking
Thirteen Ways of Looking is an exhibition curated by Dr Sylvia Theuri.
A New Art West Midlands and International Curators Forum Curatorial Residency in partnership with and hosted by Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, in association with Coventry Biennial.
Dr Sylvia Theuri, curator Ian Sergeant and Professor Mike Phillips discuss and unpack Donald Rodney’s Autoicon.
What does it mean for an artist to represent themselves visually in the digital space? How can Rodney’s work speak to contemporary experiences of navigating digital spaces? Can we read Autoicon as a digital site of resistance?
- Ian has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University. He is currently a Midlands 3 Cities AHRC funded PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. His practice-based research is titled Visual Representations and Cultural (Re) Constructions of Black British Masculinities in 21st Century Birmingham.
- Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at University of Plymouth, and the Director of Research at i-DAT.org, an Open Research Lab for playful experimentation with creative technology.
#13waysoflooking
Thirteen Ways of Looking is an exhibition curated by Dr Sylvia Theuri.
A New Art West Midlands and International Curators Forum Curatorial Residency in partnership with and hosted by Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, in association with Coventry Biennial.
