Painting and Painting

Painting and Painting: a two-person exhibition of digital and analogue paintings at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, July 2016.As the second stage of the Painting as Post Internet Technology research project initiated in 2015 by Kate Southworth and Neil McLeod, the exhibition explored the materiality and media ecology of painting in the context of the digital/virtual and in relation to Walter Benjamin’s notion of the aura. The artefact of painting was problematised, temporarily discarded, and temporarily re-instated. It informs the third stage of the project which seeks to fully digitise the artefact before re-materialising it in altered form