[Digital] Transmissions

[Digital] Transmissions brought A Kolkata to the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman from 22 February to 17 April 2023. The exhibition grew out of a development programme funded by the British Council in Jordan in collaboration with the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts and FutureEverything, creating a shared framework of online workshops, in-person sessions, mentoring, and new production for artists and creative practitioners based in Jordan.

Within that context, May showed A Kolkata, a video work built through remote collaboration and photogrammetry during pandemic restrictions. Its inclusion made the exhibition’s wider questions tangible: not just how artists use digital tools, but how those tools reshape access, distance, collaboration, and the way place can be reconstructed when direct experience is disrupted.

That made the exhibition a strong fit for May’s wider practice. A Kolkata does not treat the digital as a seamless substitute for presence. Instead, it holds together fragments, translation, and partial knowledge, asking what an image can preserve when experience itself is indirect. Shown within a programme centred on digital culture and exchange, the work extended those concerns into an explicitly international and educational setting.