Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021: The Makeable Mind
With the theme ‘The Makeable Mind’, the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021 explores the relationship between visual culture and reality: how is our thinking guided by a rampant image culture, unprecedented technological possibilities and lightning-fast internet connections?
THE MAKEABLE MIND
Curator: Paulien Dresscher | Junior curator: George Knegtel
The 28th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival has kicked off. With a remarkable group of exhibitions in Groningen ánd Friesland Noorderlicht can now be seen in the entire North of the Netherlands and even extends to The Hague. This festival marks a new beginning: from now on Noorderlicht is a biennale.
Departing from photography, the 28th edition focuses on the entire spectrum of the image, both analogue and digital: from traditional photography to digital and interactive images, internet glitches, machine learning, virtual reality, street guerrilla actions, performances, sound installations and deep fakes.
From the open call, but also by invitation, festival curator Paulien Dresscher – in collaboration with junior curator George Knegtel and Noorderlicht curator Wim Melis – came to a selection of some seventy participating artists from the Netherlands and abroad, who will be presented at no fewer than 15 varied locations.
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