Episode 1 - Digital Art, Poor Images, and How We Put Together an Art Exhibition during a Pandemic

Welcome to the 403 FORBIDDEN podcast! In this episode, we talk about the premise of our titular opening exhibition, digital art, and the concept of the poor image.

Talking points include

• Being independent curators in grad school
• Putting together an art exhibition during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Digital art/post-Internet art
• The three types of virtual exhibitions, according to Jonas Blume
• Roland Barthes’s The Death of the Author
• Hito Steyerl's concept of the Poor Image
• Racial biases in technology
• Safiya Umoja Noble's “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”
• and more!

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

403 FORBIDDEN, explores the nuances of how identity and ownership are maintained and negotiated in digital spaces. Curators Kalina, Nuo, Razieh, Candide, and Na'ama (EULA-5) explore the connection between the digital and physical realms, considering notions of identity and presence. Through artworks by Jenn Liv, Julia Makivic, and Zhazha Zhang that are immersive and relatable, 403 FORBIDDEN seeks to answer questions of how we define ownership in a space where privacy and ownership are abstract.

Join us as we rethink, reimagine, subvert, invert, and liberate ownership within digital realms and spaces.

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SHOW NOTES

A detailed outline of this episode can be found here: www.bit.ly/episode-1-notes

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Though our exhibition is virtual, it is tied to a collective that was formed for a course at OCAD University. We acknowledge the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we inhabit and create.