… intoxicating (ed)
Guy Debord : comments on the Society of the Spectacle
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The stability of latent images, 2015
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[image] The stability of latent images, 2015 detail
I stared into his eyes, so different without glasses from the huge round eyes of his earlier self. The eyes are narrow behind their contact lenses. Do I trust him? Dare I trust him? He seems a nice old man but he could well be the Hacker ...”
Gore Vidal – Live from Golgotha
Light travels at 299,792,458 metres per second. In all practical terms if information were to travel in a vacuum it would travel as fast as light but realistically it only moves as fast as its method of transmission allows it to. It travels as packets of information, from one machine to another converging at their destination in one piece. Assembled, dispersed and then re-assembled.
[image] The stability of latent images, 2015 - install
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[image] Exhale, 2015 - 1:19 minute video loop - install
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Pushing Pixels
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"There’s a funny moment toward the end of the book when Vertesi pays a visit to a researcher named Ross, who was known throughout the Rover community for his image processing skills. Vertesi asks Ross to demonstrate his vaunted decorrelation stretch technique; a little perplexed, he opens the image processing suite on his computer, loads some sample images, and explains: “I just push this button.” The distinctive greens and purples that recalled, for Vertesi, the palette of Andy Warhol were the result of a software macro applying a mathematical formula."
Janet VertesiSeeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of MarsUniversity of Chicago Press - 304 pages. April 2015
Retrieved from: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/pushing-pixels/
Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars Janet Vertesi University of Chicago Press 304 pages April 2015
Post-photographic condition-screen grab
"The post-photographic condition" – Joan Fontcuberta
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[image] Screen-grab :: https://anti-utopias.com/newswire/post-photographic-condition/ [obsolete]
new link : https://moisdelaphoto.com/en/publications/post-photographic-condition-2015/
The Post-Photographic Condition. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
In Featured Events / September 16, 2015
“The Post-Photographic Condition is characterised by the proliferation of images and the prominence of the Internet, smartphones and social networks. The world as we know it is now governed by instantaneity and subject to accelerated digital globalisation. Every facet of our lives, from personal relationships to economics, communications to politics, has been shaken to its core by this manipulation. For the first time, we are producers and consumers of images on an exponential scale. The outcome of this unprecedented excess is the immediate access to images. It remains to be seen to what extent this instant availability and universal voyeurism are both a privilege and an obstacle.”
Joan Fontcuberta
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In addition to his artistic work, Joan Fontcuberta (b. Barcelona, 1955) has carried out a multidisciplinary activity in the world of photography as a teacher, critic, historian, and exhibitions curator. He has been a visiting professor at different international institutions, such as Harvard University and Le Fresnoy, Centre National des Arts Contemporains. He has also taught on the Communication Faculty of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
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Installation proposal - 2015
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read full proposal here : cval12_july 2015_install_proposal
Exhibition and Audience
11 – 16 July, 2015
A proposal for installation by christopher valenti, Ø (empty-set) and the blended-theory project to Noel Ivanoff, HOD Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design
2015.06.22/15:06
For consideration :
1. Transparency in exile : factual information may vary according to availability (working title) an intervention to an existing access corridor where information is copied, shredded and then reconfigured.
2. A place like you / a place like me / a place that no longer belongs to us (working title) a situation where visual information is gathered to then be recomposited as an online project at a future date.
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image making
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machine art