IKBLC visited Hamburg! Exhibited at the Learning Centre in 2011, this month-long exhibition, iFormations, continued its journey as it went on a travelling exhibition from Canada to Hamburg as part of an academic conference. As part of the Digital Humanities Conference in 2012, iFormations exhibition took place in the West Wing of the Main Building in front of room 221 (see venue maps) as part of the conference’s sessions, posters, panels and discussions!
Curated by Ksenia Cheinman, with artists: Nathan McNinch, Kevin Day, Yan Lou, the iFormations exhibition was Inspired by the article “The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)” written by David Nicholas for the Art Libraries Journal1, iFormations are sets of studies exploring the subtle links between information, knowledge and meaning.
Over the past decade, as the letter “i” became interchangeably associated with information, individual and the internet technologies, the integration of the three components deepened and solidified. This new entity’s hybrid identity, while boasting blink-of-an-eye-speeds and access to an unimaginable density of informational nodes, is often ill-equipped when it comes to synthesizing the iContent, having no adequate information literacy skills.
Through the iFormations, each individual artist proposes different scenarios for reconsidering the ways we engage with and understand information. By excluding interactivity and by including pieces that take time to decode, differences between reading and viewing information are made evident.
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