Stereoscope Magazine Launch

We will be celebrating the launch of STEREOSCOPE magazine's 21st edition, the mini-issue, Machina. On the night there will will be a roster of poets and photographers presenting their latest work, including a talk with featured artist Graeme Hutton.

Graeme writes in his artist statement: 'As a wheelchair user with a progressive illness, I use photography to explore the whole of my physical self in various contexts. I am now completely reliant on the chair, such that it is an extension of me and I try to capture this in inventive, even beautiful ways. My sense of being at one with my disability is enabled through my creative practice. It is something over which I have complete control, now in a future that is less certain.'

Graeme and others have convened around the theme of Machina.

MACHINA: machine, device; deus ex MACHINA: god from the machine. To portray gods descending onto the stage, the Greeks lowered their actors from the sky using a crane, a MACHINA. In our stage of MACHINA, the body glitches, the lens remembers. 

All the world could be your stage - let the antique crane bring you down to earth. Show us the world unplugged, show us the world tomorrow, where we are now. 

How are you wired? 

Where does pulse end and engine start? 

What are your mechanics of desire, your circuitry of grief? 

What program are you running on? What code do you follow? 

Stereoscope Magazine celebrates the long-standing tradition of photography in St Andrews, begun by its historic resident Sir David Brewster, inventor of the stereoscope. Brewster’s correspondence with William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the calotype, established the town as an epicenter of early photography. This tradition is continued by St Andrews’ students today - whose work is displayed alongside images from the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums Photographic Archive - a resource with over 1,000,000 images.