Art + Law: ep.3 NFTs

A conversation about the impact of the internet on contemporary visual culture with some of London’s leading young voices in digital media and post-internet art.

The panel comprised Paul Hobson (Contemporary Art Society Director), Sarah Page (Contemporary Art Society Membership Programmes Manager), Attilia Fattori Franchini, a bright and rising curator working with digital media and co-director of online gallery, bubblebyte.org, and acclaimed artist and member of the collective, LuckyPDF, Yuri Pattison.

It is not enough to imagine post-internet art as being only computer or internet based, but rather it can be identified as any art that is influenced by the internet and digital media. Informed by questions around the collapse of the traditional physical exhibition space, the reproducibility of the digital image, decentralised authorship, and further into ideas around the development of attention as currency. Post-internet art is a subject of our contemporary moment and we delighted to invite your views, questions and thoughts on it in an evening of discussion and debate.

Image: Yuri Pattison, Focal Plane (detail), image courtesy the artist, 2013.

Talk - Conversations on Contemporary Art: Post-Internet Art

Contemporary Art Society Collections Patron Brian Smith discusses the development of his extensive collection of 20th century British art which he has been building for over 40 years. 

Amongst the highlights in his collection are works by Naum Gabo, Elizabeth Frink and Bridget Riley as well as groups of works illustrating the development of current senior artists such as Ann Christopher, Geoffrey Clarke and Bryan Kneale. The seminar forms part of our Spotlight on Contemporary Collectors series and coincided with our David Hockney display at 59 Central Street.

Image: Naum Gabo, Linear Construction in Space No. 1 (detail), 1942. Courtesy the artist and Brian Smith.

Spotlight on Contemporary Collectors: Collections Patron Brian Smith in conversation (27 June 2013)

Louisa Fairclough, Artist Member, Contemporary Art Society 

Using ground, tidal water, voice and light as material, Louisa Fairclough's work mainly takes the form of film loops, field recordings and drawings. Louisa is currently working on choral ‘film-sculptures’ and performances that draw on her deceased sister Hetta’s sketchbooks as scores. A notional collaboration, the film-sculptures are modular and when heard together form a chord. Louisa is working closely with composer Richard Glover, Gloucester Cathedral choristers and ICIA and Centre for Death & Society at University of Bath.

Louisa has recently completed a series of photographs of her sister’s sketchbooks, the photographs remember the drawings. The titles are Louisa’s yet draw from words in the sketchbooks: “In the drawings she calls and in the titles, I reply.”

Drawing is also constant in Louisa’s practice. Her ongoing series of watercolour and spit drawings stemming from her full moon sleeps along the River Severn.

Selected recent shows: Jeannie, Arnolfini, Bristol, commissioned by Bristol New Music (2014); Flecks of a Brighter Colour, ICIA, University of Bath, Bath (2014); Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London (2013), DISPLAYS: Louisa Fairclough, Contemporary Art Society, London (2013), Ground Truth, solo exhibition, Ha Gamle Prestegard Norway and Danielle Arnaud,  London (2011-12). Bore Song was acquired by Contemporary Art Society for Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum: The Wilson (2012). Two drawings were selected for Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011.

Body Of Water, Louisa Fairclough (2010)

Recorded live from Gunnersbury Park Museum, artist Michael Landy, CBE, RA, shared a selection of previous works – including Breakdown (2001) an Artangel commission in which he catalogued and destroyed all of his possessions in a disused department store on Oxford Street and Acts of Kindness (2011) for Art on the Underground – as part of the artistic context for his proposal for the Humanitarian Aid Memorial at Gunnersbury Park.  

The evening continued with a round table discussion between Landy, Humanitarian Aid Committee member Sir Brendan Gormley, Gunnersbury Estate’s CEO, David Bowler and Contemporary Art Society Senior Art Producer, Jordan Kaplan.

Image: Michael Landy by David Bebber

In Conversation with Michael Landy

This one day collaborative seminar brought together the two networks to explore the different aspects of displaying, collecting and preserving sound pieces. The seminar presented a series of short papers from invited artists, academics and curators followed by panel discussions and opportunities for networking.

This seminar focused on different aspects of displaying, collecting and preserving sound pieces. Discussing current commissions (Katrina Palmer, The Quarryman’s Daughters for Art Angel); exhibitions and recent sound displays (for example, Susan Phillipzs: War Damaged Musical Instruments) the speakers considered current theoretical, practical and institutional issues dealing with artists working with sounds as a sculptural medium, informing the networks about current practices in contemporary art.

5 Susan Philipsz

3 Cevdet Erek

1 Salome Voegelin

This year’s CAS/Frieze Curatorial Summit looks at the resurgence of populism and the far-right, which echoes the days when the School of Bauhaus closed due to mounting pressure from the Nazi regime. Moderated by artist Liam Gillick, a group of international speakers will discuss the situation in countries including Brazil, Turkey and Germany and how institutions can respond to the current climate.

Frieze Curatorial Summit, 3 Oct 2019

Art + Law: ep.1 The Public Realm

Art + Law: Ep.2 Intellectual Property (IP)

The Contemporary Art Society exists to encourage an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by a wide audience and to donate works by important and new artists to museums and public galleries across the UK.

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