Accept Terms and Conditions

The exhibition Accept Terms and Conditions explores the changing functions of photography that have evolved through the smartphone. The two series: Digital Dust and Our Writing Tools Take Part in the Forming of Our Thoughts investigate how this photographic tool and its apps change the ways photographs are produced, stored and shared but also how image contents are automatically analyzed and called to mind by AI systems. 
Lulay is particularly interested in the smartphone as a „frame“. She examines how layouts, icons and algorithms provide specific possibilities to interact or remember and thus how apps and the way they are programmed shapes our perception, memory and behaviour. Photographs that are shot with a smartphone, sent via WhatsApp, or uploaded to social media platforms are not only means of communicating with “friends”—they also reveal locations, interests, and behavioural patterns to the companies that make these apps available. With every step we take with our mobile phone in the pocket, with every liked, shared or even deleted picture, our data-based, digital self-portrait becomes more accurate and distilled.

Larissa Fischer, Kuckei + Kuckei

Our Writing Tools Take Part in the Forming of Our Thoughts, 2018
series of 12 laser-cut c-prints, 20 x 30cm - 150 x 200cm 

Heart, paper plane, speech bubble…to use our smartphone we have to learn this new sign language. In my laser cuts, photographs from the apartment of my 75 years old friend C. merge with iconic symbols from the digital world. While architectural spaces shape our offline encounters, the layouts and icons of apps shape our social interactions online. The big difference - all our online interactions leave traces. The semi-transparent, network-like structure of my works echos how our digital interactions make us transparent to digital companies. Whenever we like, share, buy or search something online, we leave traces that unfold behind us like technical, non-visible labyrinths.