SONGS OF THE SKY

SONGS OF THE SKY

Published by Spector Books, 2021
Book size 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Pages 293 with numerous black-white and color illustrations thread-sewn Hardcover
Languages ​​English and German
ISBN: 9783959055512

What stories does photography tell us about the “spirit in the sky” in the digital age? This book looks at the traditional genre of cloudscape painting as a basis for discussing digitization and its consequences. When we think about photography today, we also need to think about the infrastructure that crosslinks and organizes it. Whether we are talking about images from surveillance cameras or satellites, digitized archival images or holiday shots on our smartphones, all these pictures are now stored as digital data in the cloud and processed by AI. In the dialogue between historical photographs and current works, the exhibition catalog covers a wide arc ranging from the first depictions of clouds in photography to the global impact of cloud computing technology. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and C/O Berlin Friends.
Authors: James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Orit Halpern, Nicolas Malevé, Florian Sprenger, Kathrin Schönegg, and Eva Wilson
With works by: Claudia Angelmaier, Sylvia Ballhause, Marie Clerel, Raphaël Dallaporta, Fragmentin, Noémie Goudal, Louis Henderson, Noa Jansma, Stefan Karrer, Almut Linde, Lisa Oppenheim, Trevor Paglen, Meghann Riepenhoff, Simon Roberts, Evan Roth, Mario Santamaría , Adrian Sauer, Andy Sewell, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Louis Vignes, and Charles Nègre
Kathrin Schönegg is a historian of photography working as curator at C/O Berlin.

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What stories does photography tell us about the “spirit in the sky” in the digital age? This book looks at the traditional genre of cloudscape painting as a basis for discussing digitalization and its consequences. When we think about photography today, we must also think about the infrastructure that connects and organizes it. Whether images from surveillance cameras or satellites, digitized archive images or holiday photos on our smartphones, all of these images are now stored as digital data in the cloud and processed by AI. In the dialogue between historical photographs and current works, the exhibition catalogue covers a broad arc from the first representations of clouds in photography to the global impact of cloud computing technology. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and C/O Berlin Friends.