QueerTech.io and Rosa Menkman are exhibiting in the upcoming RMIT Gallery exhibition The Image Looks Back — part of PHOTO 2021’s expanded program.

QueerTech.io is a collective of Melbourne-based queer-identifying new media artists engaged in exploring notions of #queertechcreative practices. Since 2017, they have presented more than 60 screen-based digital media artworks from around the globe at venues in Australia. QueerTech.io is a passion project run by Xanthe Dobbie, Travis Cox and Alison Bennett. For The Black Box Experiment, they are joined by Megan Beckwith and J. Rosenbaum.

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and researcher whose work focuses on noise artefacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media — such as glitch, encoding and feedback artefacts. These artefacts facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardisation via resolutions, a process that generally imposes efficiency, order and functionality on our technologies.

PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography
PHOTO LIVE July 2020

PHOTO LIVE is a series of live streamed conversations about the social and cultural role photography plays in our lives, addressing a range of issues from identity and belonging to human rights and social justice. PHOTO LIVE features artists and photographers based in Australia, Nigeria, USA and the Netherlands. PHOTO LIVE will be broadcast live on the PHOTO 2021 Facebook page (no log in required) and added to their website the next day. All events will be live captioned. All times listed are for Melbourne (AEST).

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