The And Or Project
The And Or Project was a research project and critical experiment with co-editors Dr Sarah Archino and Dr Síofra McSherry, that ran from 2014-2019, exploring new relationships between art, writing and exhibition online. And Or produced exhibitions, talks and publications in collaboration with artists, writers, critics, programmers and designers, including Command Plus in 2014, Pacific Binaries in 2015-16, Pacific Binaries Redux in 2016-17 and Travel Patterns in 2018.
Command Plus
Molly Morin and Nia Davies
Pacific Binaries
Anya Schaffner with Alison J. Carr, Roddy Lumsden and Monica Steinberg
A Third Place: the And Or Project
Published in 2018, this book chapter discusses the theoretical and artistic underpinnings of the And Or Project, and traces the formulation of its production between disciplines.
“Here then is my own roll call, undoubtedly an incomplete and still speculative one, of those who recorded or subsequently claimed for themselves the pre-1839 onset of a desire to photograph: Henry Brougham (England, 1794), Elizabeth Fulhame (England, 1794), Thomas Wedgwood (England, c.1800), Anthony Carlisle (England, c.1800), Humphry Davy (England, c.1801–1802), Thomas Young (England, 1803), Nicéphore (neec-ef-or) and Claude Niépce (Nyeps) (France, 1814), Samuel Morse (United States, 1821), Louis Daguerre (France, 1824), Eugène Hubert (France, c.1828), James Wattles (United States, 1832), Hercules Florence (France/Brazil, 1832), Richard Habersham (United States, 1832), Henry Talbot (England, 1833), Philipp Hoff Meister (Germany, 1834), Friedrich Gerber (Switzerland, 1836), John Draper (United States, 1836), Vernon Heath (England, 1837), Hippolyte Bayard (France, 1837), José Ramos Zapetti (Spain, 1837).”