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Screen Walk with Ellie Wyatt
About this film
Ellie Wyatt guided the audience through an investigation of how photographic and digital images are selected, composited, disseminated and co-opted in service of myriad belief systems, from UFO conspiracy theories and apocalypse myths to political agendas and the cult of celebrity. The artist provided a tour behind the making of her work cherrypicker , which incorporates over a thousand found images in a fast-paced, infinitely looping sequence, immersing, seducing and overwhelming the viewer in an eerie and uncomfortable world of Illuminati, ghosts, Google street views, alien civilisations, and Kate Middleton’s knees. Connecting diverse image contents, Wyatt focused on the circulatory powers of low-quality photographs online, and their lasting connection to ideas of “evidence” and “truth”. Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. An online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland.
Directors & creators
Screen Walks
Subjects
Screen Walks, Ellie Wyatt, research, aesthetics, circulation
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