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Afterimage: Photography within the Digital Age

This night, a brand new exhibition exploring the impression of digital expertise on pictures is launching in Photo Museum Ireland.

Afterimage: Photography within the Digital Age brings collectively a collection of work by Irish and worldwide artists who’re “the material and conceptual transformations that have profoundly altered our sense of what a photograph is and can be”. Taking as their material the ubiquity of smartphone cameras, image-sharing apps and reality-bending generative synthetic intelligence, the exhibition friends into what number of methods a photographic picture can now be made and manipulated.

Curated by Darren Campion, ‘Afterimage’ options work  by Alan Butler, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Luke van Gelderen, Gregory Eddi Jones, Maria Mavropoulou, Alan Phelan, Michael Schäfer and Linn Phyllis Seeger.

The official launch is at 6pm right now, Thursday, 16 July, and the exhibition will likely be exhibiting till 23 August.

For extra info, go to Photo Museum Ireland’s web site here.

Echoes of Shared Walls

We’re sending you again out to Clancy Quay Studio in Islandbridge this week.

At the tip of June, artist and Onion Boys lead vocalist James Carroll-Freeney launched his exhibition This will not be a Table // This is a Table, which examined the concept the previous, current and future all exist concurrently.

This will not be a desk… solely had a brief run in Clancy Quay. The studio is an initiative set-up by the National College of Art and Design to supply year-long residencies to a collection of their graduates. But, on Friday night, the studio is launching Echoes of Shared Walls, the ultimate studio exhibition of the 2025-26 residents.

Opening at 6pm, Echoes… will characteristic works from Carroll-Freeney, Andrew Scully, Clarissa Kelly, Donna Lawlor, Noor Farsakh and Scout McLeod.

It will likely be free to go to till Sunday, 19 July. For extra info, observe Clancy Quay Studios here.

Camilla Grudova

On Saturday night, Paddy Cosgrave’s enterprise The Whistleblower will likely be welcoming writer Camilla Grudova into their hub of radical books, concepts and selections of paint within the {hardware} store.

Named one in every of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2023, the Canadian writer has garnered popularity of her Shirley Jackson Prize-winning 2016 quick story “Waxy“, her 2017 assortment of tales The Doll’s Alphabet, printed by FitzCarraldo Editions, and her 2022 novel Children’s of Paradise, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Grudova will likely be within the South Anne Street café and bookshop at 6:30pm to speak about her literary influences and the significance of studying.

Tickets are free and accessible here.

Value for Many

On Tuesday, the Irish Film Institute will likely be holding Value for Many, a particular double invoice of documentaries celebrating publicly-funded architectural tasks.

Commissioned by the Office of Public Works in 2025, the 2 movies Circle and Threshold have been directed by Patrick Voigt of 9sekunden, a Germany-based studio that enticingly guarantees “atmospheric films about architecture, landscape, urbanism and corporate culture”.

Circle takes the viewer right down to see the Arklow Wastewater Treatment plant in Wicklow, which was opened in April 2025, roughly 35 years after locals have been first promised the ability. The movie appears to be like on the €139 million Uisce Éireann facility, the architectural apply Clancy Moore, which is behind it, and the city as they have fun its completion finally.

Then Threshold heads additional south right down to Rosslare Europort because the OPW carries out its formidable reconfiguration of the 20-hectare port within the aftermath of Brexit.

Value for Many begins at 6:30pm on Tuesday, 21 July, and will likely be adopted by a dialog led by Emmett Scanlon, director of the Irish Architecture Foundation. On the panel will likely be Voigt, Arklow resident Sandra Hall, architect Andrew Clancy and marine pilot Sean Boyce.

Tickets can be found here.

Talking Shop

Finally, the Liberties Festival is returning on Monday and as soon as once more, the Dublin InQuirer will likely be dropping into just a few native companies to talk with their house owners for the second version of Talking Shop.

Last 12 months’s version noticed just a few members of our group drop into spots just like the Model Shop, Straffan Antiques and Little Flower Penny Dinners to find among the tales that formed these companies, and body them throughout the bigger cultural and social context of the Liberties, whereas additionally offering locations like Noel’s Deli an opportunity to revive their well-known sausage rolls.

This 12 months reporter Stephanie Costello, deputy editor Lois Kapila and I’ll heading out, starting on Tuesday at 6:30pm in Hopeless Botanics on Dean Street, adopted by Thomas House on Thomas Street at 7:30pm.

Then, on Wednesday, we will likely be over in Some Neck Guitars on Francis Street at 6:30pm and Picado Mexican on Cork Street at 7:30pm.

Finally, on Wednesday, we will likely be paying a go to to Martin Fennelly Antiques on Francis Street at 6:30pm, and Betty Bojangles on Thomas Street at 7:30pm.

Each speak is free, however reserving is required. To reserve a spot and to see the total competition line-up, go to the Liberties Festival web site here.

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Summer in Dublin, Kerlin Gallery

On Friday, the Kerlin Gallery will likely be launching its new group exhibition Summer in Dublin.

Running till 22 August, Summer in Dublin will characteristic works by Dorothy Cross, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Willie Doherty, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Justin Fitzpatrick, Mark Francis, Guggi, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Zhou Li, Stephen McKenna, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Isabel Nolan, Hazel O’Sullivan, Sean Scully and Liliane Tomasko.

For extra info, go to the Kerlin web site here.

Acid 87, The Gall and Enola Christ Metalizer

On Monday night, 20 July, Kirkos will likely be internet hosting an evening of efficiency artwork, sound artwork and the surprising for many who refuse to accept the peculiar.

Doors open at 7:30pm, and amongst these set to characteristic within the venue at 1 Little Green Street is Acid 87, the Gall and Enola Christ Metalizer.

The occasion is unticketed. It can be going to be loud.

Consultation on Aircraft Noise Regulation at Dublin Airport

The Aircraft Noise Competent Authority (ANCA) is encouraging the general public to make submissions and observations on planning software F23A/0781 that may see a rise in passenger capability at Dublin Airport.

The session is at the moment underway, and ANCA invitations the general public to make their submissions and observations till 3 September. These may be made on-line although the session portal here, by e-mail to aircraftnoiseconsultation@fingal.ie, or in writing to Aircraft Noise Consultation, Aircraft Noise Competent Authority, Fingal County Council, County Hall, Main Street, Swords, Co Dublin, K67 X8Y2.