Join in conversation with artist Mohsen Azar as he discusses his As of Now… series included in the exhibition Metadata:Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century. The series explores the lasting impact and life cycle of images of politically-charged trauma. Azar takes these images and uploads and downloads them to Instagram thousands of times, exploiting a compression algorithm that eventually causes these pictures to transform into unrecognizable abstractions. In this gallery talk, Azar will discuss his practice exploring the materiality and metadata of these images.
Paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax revenues.
Support for this exhibition was provided by Gulf Coast Community Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Endowment. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov
