Brief Biography

Marco De Mutiis works as Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, where he leads and co-curates the experimental exhibition format and research lab SITUATIONS, exploring the changing role of photography in contemporary digital and networked cultures. 

He co-created and curates Screen Walks, a series of live streams with artists using the screen as their medium. 

He also deals with issues related to digital infrastructures, online museums, and photography in its computational and algorithmic forms.

He is currently part of a SNF funded research project titled “Post-Photography” with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and a PhD researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. His research focuses on computer games and photography, simulations of photographic act of capture, machinic gaze, photorealism, photo modes, photographic playbour and screenshotting practices.

 

He is the co-initiator, core member and networked mastermind of the rogue collective behind You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You.