Fun, mischievous and subversive, the artists in Screen Time pursue playful, engaging and thought-provoking approaches to contemporary culture. Turning the telescope in on themselves, they question the evolving role of still photography and video media in an age of digital communication, appropriation and memes.

Screen Time features a powerful and up-to-date selection of leading international artists seeking to critique and engage with the role of media in the post-internet world. Drawn from one of the pre-eminent art collections in Europe, it includes an extraordinary group of artists separated by geography, ethnicity and gender, but united in their concern with the onslaught of information in the twenty-first century. These works include wry references to historical photography and video art while exhibiting a fresh sensibility of humor, self-awareness, and inter-subjectivity, tackling serious issues of identity in a society that is by turns self-obsessed, skeptical, nostalgic and funny. 

The artists represented in Screen Time embody what have become known as post-internet artistic practices—art that may or may not be made for the internet, but nevertheless acknowledges online culture as an omnipresent influence, inseparable from contemporary social conditions. They ask what it means to be a photographer when everyone is an Instagram influencer; what it means to make video art when everyone is a TikTok video star; and how to deliver meaningful social commentary in the age of the meme. This is a show that will inspire and amaze, entertain and surprise.

The exhibition offers many different themes for interpretation and educational programming, including the meaning and importance of still photography, video, cinema, television and digital forms of art and communication. It engages with famous and emerging artists from the United States, Canada and Europe, as well as Australia, Brazil, China, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

All works are generously loaned by THE EKARD COLLECTION.

WORKS
26 total: 18 photographs, 6 videos (5 projections, 1 monitor), 2 sculptures
Projection equipment available to support installation, please inquire.

DIMENSIONS
See checklist below.

SPACE REQUIREMENTS
250 linear feet (76 linear meters)

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Curators available for lectures and panel discussions.

EXHIBITOR RESOURCES
Exhibition catalogue available.

INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org | 626.577.0044

FEE
Please inquire.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Tweed Museum of Art at University of Minnesota | Duluth, Minnesota
(September 5 – October 31, 2023)

Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton, New Jersey
(May 7 – August 7, 2022)

Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
(January 18 – March 27, 2022)

CURATORS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Richard Rinehart, Director of the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, has curated, taught, lectured, and published extensively on contemporary new media art. He served previously as Digital Media Director for the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and published a book with MIT Press, "Re-Collection: Art, New Media, & Social Memory.”

Phillip Prodger is Executive Director of Curatorial Exhibitions and former Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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