Alfredo Cramerotti

Writer, curator and artist based in the UK, Alfredo's work explores the relationship between reality and representation across TV, radio, publishing, critical writing, photography and exhibition curating. Co-curator (as CPS), Manifesta 8 European Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator, QUAD Derby; Co-curator of the collectives CPS Chamber of Public Secrets and AGM Annual General Meeting; Editor, Critical Photography at Intellect Books. Recent publications include the books Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009), Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness and The Blind (both forth. 2010). Interests: Over the past five years Alfredo Cramerotti has written about the aesthetic merger of contemporary art and the news media. By adopting the ubiquitous tropes of interviews, graphic mapping, and Magnum style photography an increasing number of artists have borrowed from these visual languages to present their work into a context closely aligned with investigative journalism. By addressing this topic Alfredo seeks to answer a number of questions including: Does such an integration of art and journalism emancipate art from a closed sphere of discourse allowing it a more social and political dimension? Does the use of an investigative methodology within contemporary art practice shift an understanding of truth and subjectivity? By borrowing from forms of news media, what new modes of exhibition practice are artists, curators, and writers enabling to develop cultural relationships between the global relevance to local issues?