RMIT School of Art at PHOTO 2024
execute_photography has been produced by RMIT Culture and supported by RMIT Enabling Impact Platforms. This project is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.
Image: Sara Oscar, A hyperrealistic photograph of a 30 year old Thai woman, pregnant, suit, lost expression, Suvarnamhubi airport, luggage, carpark, 1970s – – scale 1:1, quality 1, 2023, AI generated image. Image courtesy of the artist.
RMIT School of Art is delighted to be an educational partner with PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography.
This year, we feel a particularly strong alignment with the festival theme of The Future, encompassing technological, ontological, ethical and indigenous futures. This resonates with our vision for photography in the twenty-first century as an expanded, enveloping and evolving entity.
Around one third of the artists and photographers in the festival have an association with RMIT, reflecting the impact of our culture and scholarship on the sector. This newsletter summarises exhibitions and events that feature our academics, students and alumni.
Our flagship event is the exhibition execute_photography at RMIT Gallery, 1 March – 4 May, curated by RMIT School of Art academics Dr Alison Bennett, Associate Professor Shane Hulbert, and Professor Daniel Palmer, with our dear friend and collaborator, the brilliant Associate Professor Katrina Sluis, Head of Photography and Media Arts at ANU School of Art & Design. The exhibition brings together works that playfully deploy photography as an executable file, a set of instructions diffused within ubiquitous computing. Of particular interest will be the Prompt Battle to be held 15 March at ACMI as part of the public programs associated with execute_photography.
Two of our academics Isabella Capezio and Dr Laresa Kosloff have solo exhibitions in PHOTO 2024, as do two of our higher degree by research candidates Adam Ferguson and Lingham K. PhD candidate Jody Haines has work featured as part of Future River: When the past flows, PhD candidate Bixiao Zhang (Frankie) has work in Future Anterior at Blindside, and PhD candidate Nikki Lam has work in Only the future revisits the past at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. We are truly delighted that three of our recent graduates, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Teva Cosic, and Kyle Archie Knight, have been selected for the New Photographers program. Their work represents the innovation, creativity, intelligence and joy that we seek to foster through our programs and research.
We encourage our community to make the most of the opportunity PHOTO 2024 represents to immerse ourselves in the richness and innovation of photography practice in the twenty-first century, including the PHOTO Ideas Summit 15 March as part of the Ideas Weekend.
Dr Alison Bennett, Associate Dean Photography & Director of RMIT Imaging Futures Lab
and Professor Kit Wise, Dean, School of Art