Screen Walks
An online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Screen Walks is a new series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. The Covid-19 pandemic has, to a large extent, paralysed the artworld and put the work of most cultural institutions on hold. Reacting with a new online collaborative programme The Photographers' Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur remain engaged in supporting artists and researchers while opening up an opportunity to search out what alternative activities can – and are – taking place online, as well as connecting a global audience.
This collaborative project is a way of bringing together and offering insight into some of the rich and varied art practices using the screen as a medium. From re-contextualising imagery found on online marketplaces, uncovering data brokers’ invisible circulation of images, to analysing in-game photography and the social, political and economic implications of games, Screen Walks takes visitors on a rare journey behind-the-scenes and screens of a range of artist projects and uncovers new, current and forgotten digital spaces.
Over the next months, Screen Walks will post a fortnightly wednesday ‘walk’. Each of these invites an artist to stream performative explorations of specific online and digital spaces in which their own core artistic research and practice takes place. The video streams take a format that blurs the boundaries between a guided tour and a workshop, offering a subjective navigation of select digital spaces while providing an up close and personal look at the artist’s practice.
Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

27th January, 18.00 GMT join Dina Kelberman in an online exploration

13rd January, 18.00 GMT join Clusterduck in an online exploration

2nd December, 18.00 GMT watch Janny Odell in a personal and historic exploration of the development of Silicon Valley

18th November, 18.00 GMT Salvatore Vitale looked at surveillance cameras through a performative installation in a public space.

4th November, 18.00 GMT Maria Guta impersonated Iris, a fictional character, exploring the mechanisms of self-representation and self-staging.

21 October, 18.00 BST Mishka Henner led a tour through found material on YouTube, Google Earth, Street View, and other online visioning tools.

7 October, 18.00 BST Max Colson focused on how architecture and landscape are framed by digital visualisations, 3D software and collective memories.

Wednesday 23rd 18:00 GMT. September Zaiba Jabbar explored the community working with face filters and augmented reality.

Wednesday 29th 18:00 GMT. July Google Street View Photographer Bot led a virtual street photography performance.

Wednesday 15th 18:00 GMT. July Conor McGarrigle explored the relationships between algorithms, data and images on social media platforms

Wednesday 17 June 18.00 GMT. Gaia Tedone explored the online circulation of networked images

Wednesday 1st July 18.00 GMT. Lauren Huret explored the work of online image moderators

Wednesday 3 June 18.00 GMT. The Dazzle Club hosted an exploration of strategies for subverting face detection and recognition softwares.

Wednesday 20 May, 18.00 BST. Joana Moll hosted an exploration through the online world of data marketplaces.

Wednesday 22 April, 18.00 GMT. Alan Butler led an online tour of the game environment of Grand Theft Auto V.

Wednesday 8 April, 18.00 BST. Penelope Umbrico took the audience on an exploration of images published on online marketplaces and image-based social media