PowerPoint Polemics: Speculative Slideware on the Future of Images

12:15am, Fri 22 Jan 2016 - 12:15am, Sun 03 Apr 2016

15 artist commissions celebrating the 26th anniversary of PowerPoint
The Ballad of Things To Come. © Clunie Reid, 2016

PowerPoint Polemics: Speculative Slideware on the Future of Images

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15 artist commissions celebrating the 26th anniversary of PowerPoint

This event is part of our Past Programme

Although there's a growing body of literature addressing PowerPoint’s place in contemporary knowledge production, it has so far been overlooked as an artistic medium and exhibition format, despite its sole function being grounded in visual arts.

On the year the 26th anniversary of Microsoft’s release of PowerPoint, the Media Wall, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London, are commissioning 15 artists, scientists and theorists to playfully consider the politics and aesthetics of slideware, while speculating on the future of image production.

With contributions from: Stephan DillemuthIOCOSELev ManovichRosa MenkmanSascha PohfleppClaire TolanRebecca Roth (NASA)Joe Gibson & Mishka HennerJoachim SchmidJoão Enxuto & Erica LoveOlga Goriunova & Matthew FullerPaul WombellClunie ReidWerkflow & Mechanical Turk.

Supported by Goethe Institut

Goethe Institut London