Screen Walks Weekend

Fri 22 Sep 2023 - Sun 24 Sep 2023

Join us for a special weekend of hybrid performances, guided tours and group games around themes of digital and networked images, featuring Nina Davies, #Sergina and Trâm and much more

Screen Walks Weekend

Fri 22 Sep 2023 - Sun 24 Sep 2023

Join us for a special weekend of hybrid performances, guided tours and group games around themes of digital and networked images, featuring Nina Davies, #Sergina and Trâm and much more

This event is part of our Past Programme

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Three years since its launch, Screen Walks – a collaborative project by Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery – is extending its livestream programme to a series of IRL activities.

The Screen Walks Weekend will continue the playful yet critical exploration of the world of digital images and online visual culture: from exploring TikTok screens with Nina Davies to searching for minerals on the banks of the Thames with Max Dovey, from collective AI image creation activities to a tour of the media powers that occupy Soho with Alistair Gentry.

All activities are free but RSVP is required.

Friday 22 September

Join us on Friday evening from 18.00 for a Screen Walk from Nina Davies exploring TikTok screens and performances from #Sergina and Trâm.

Three ring lights with phones showing portraits inside. The image has a black background

The artist with a background of brightly coloured grid of people on a zoom webinar

An image of the artist in a pink wig performing in front of two monitors showing song lyrics

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Saturday 23 September

Stones arranged within a schematic drawing of a mobile phone

11.00 Rare Earth Walks

At 11.00, join Max Dovey you are invited to come look for stones, metals and minerals, tracing the elements of electronics for their material and spiritual histories.

14.00 AI Exquisite Corpse

Visitors to the gallery on Saturday afternoon, 14.00 – 17.00, can partake in the collective creation of a surrealist image through the use of contemporary AI generative software. Each participant is asked to contribute to the exquisite corpse with a prompt extending the image using Dall-E’s “outpainting” feature. Join the game while engaging in conversation about AI and machine learning in the field of imaging systems with other creators. The final image will be sent to all co-creators.

15.00 A Sleazy Tour of Soho and Fitzrovia

Alistair Gentry leads a Sleazy Tour of Soho and Fitzrovia, taking in key London locations of the Media Entertainment Industrial Complex.

Sunday 24 September

A composite of screenshots with an overlay of a roulette wheel spinning on top.

11.00 Photo Roulette World Tournament

As a closing event of the weekend, the audience is invited to join a closing brunch at the cafe of The Photographers’ Gallery. Here participants are invited to bring their smartphone and engage in a tournament of Photo Roulette, competing to recognise mobile photos and win the title of Screen Walks Weekend Champion.

Screen Walks is a collaborative project by Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery.