This talk is about the digital manipulation of data in relationship to craft and art, how is it achieved, does it change the end result and can it still hold authenticity.

Some anthropologists are contributing to a growing interest in art and design research that is based on fluid forms of understanding that are acquired and changed through the processes of making, especially when specifically related to materials, places and people, rather than static notions of knowledge more familiar to western academic thinking.

This expansion of how making/art creation is carried out and conceived is changing the nature of study in a number of disciplines. This talk poses questions about the antique artefact and its reinterpretation. Can perhaps these artefacts (usually kept in museums) help us understand our past and develop our futures.

In parallel with this increased interest in making within academic communities, there has also been a wider rise in the popularity of making in domestic and non-academic spaces. Since the late 1990s this movement has gained momentum and followers, as can be seen in the huge increase in ‘Hackspaces’ and ‘Makerspaces’ internationally, this has contributed to ‘seeing through’ the digital capture of data and has developed questions about authorship, replication and diversity.

Cluster is pleased to hold a practical workshop with Tom Bowditch on the specifics of documenting artwork.

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The workshop will be focussed around the technical aspects of documenting Artwork/Exhibitions which makes up most of what Tim do as a photographer. He will deliver a 2 hour workshop where he will give an overview of the kind of work he does and then go into how to technically approach photographing various types of artwork in a "classroom" environment and then put some of it into practice with a demo using his camera, lights and artoworks on site.

Tim Bowditch is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in London. Graduating from University of Portsmouth in 2008 with a BA in Photography Bowditch documents exhibitions, artworks and performances for many galleries, project spaces and artists directly. Institutions include Arcadia Missa, Camden Arts Centre, Copperfield Gallery, David Roberts Arts Foundation, Delfina Foundation, Kingsgate Workshops, Kunstraum, Matts Gallery, Millington Marriott, MOT International, PEER, Pi Artworks, Ryder Project, Space In Between, Space Studios, Somerset House, Sunday Painter, The Photographers Gallery, TURF, Whitechapel Gallery and Zabludowicz Collection.

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Benjamin Murphy is an artist, writer, gallerist, and lecturer based in London. Since graduating, he has exhibited in over 150 exhibitions globally, at galleries including The Saatchi Gallery and the Houses of Parliament. As well as this, he is the co-founder and co-director of Delphian Gallery, which is a peripatetic gallery that focuses on showing emerging and early-career artists. Benjamin is a lecturer at University Of The Arts London, and also regularly guest lectures outside of UAL, often on the topic that he will be discussing on the 4th of May. During the talk he will cover many topics, but will also allow questions from the floor at any point during his talk so as to ensure that he discusses the things that the audience really wants to know.