Noorderlicht Photography returns in September to the Old Sugar Factory, an impressive industrial complex in Groningen, which will host the 22nd edition of the world
renowned festival for photography with the main exhibition 'Data Rush'.
In 2015, every second person on this planet will be connected to the internet. It has taken just twenty years to reach this point. Unsurprisingly, the internet, like any other territory, has been made subject to power play. Government agencies, global corporations and black hat hackers are all players in a big scramble to either control, or at least survey everything so it can be used to their advantage.
DATA RUSH investigates the tension between freedom and control in a virtual world. At the same time, on a photographic level it poses the challenge: if photography is a medium that tells us stories about the physical world we live in, how can it enlighten us about life in a virtual world, and the revolutions taking place in it?
Event informations
Noorderlicht Photography
Akerkhof 12
9711 JB Groningen
The Netherlands