Belay: 28 February 2011 (For other belays and the idea behind them, see here). I am exploring the relationship between the jpeg compression protocol and the new photographic and imaging practices of sharing, publishing, streaming, archiving and remixing online, by understanding jpeg as a process-actant, an occasion of becoming and perishing. My aim is to …
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Tweets for the week :: 2011-02-27
The Internationale Daily is out! ▸ Top stories today via @rodgers_scott @saddleblaze @internationale # Thing of the day: 26.02.11 http://flic.kr/p/9mhaaw # The #birkbeckmedia Daily is out! # The Internationale Daily is out! ▸ Top stories today via @paulctayla @berrydm # Thing of the day: 25.02.11 http://flic.kr/p/9kZQD6 # Is this the coolest student journalist resume ever? …
Somewhere between pressing the button and doing the rest
The mashup happens downstream. The stream of imag(in)ings that jpeg enables, whether they are instantiated on a Flickr page, connected to a Tweet, on a Facebook wall or as part of slideflow or maps mashup happen at the end of the digital imaging pipeline. More correctly they happen at the end of one form of …
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Inner and outer, visible and invisible
Although Adrian Mackenzie does not use the language of Actor-Network Theory or object-oriented philosophy, his account of the experience of ‘wirelessness’ shares a number of common themes, notably the way in which “wirelessness is thoroughly entangled with products and promises of economic value” (Mackenzie 2010: 145). What Latour would call ‘alliances’ are integral to wirelessness’ …
Visible and univisble standards
The visibility of jpeg-encoded data yet the unvisibility of jpeg itself is not a chance occurrence. The fact that in my “digital imag(in)ing apparatus” the process of light-becoming-information works the way it does is because of material and concrete actor-networks: Google engineering labs, Apple design studios, surveillances state departments, academic practice-research committees etc. It is …
Imag(in)ing theory – a draft presentation
I am giving a paper at the Practicing Theory – ASCA International Workshop 2011 in Amsterdam next week. The paper is available here, but the organisers, thankfully, do not want people to read their papers but rather give a short presentation of their work and reflect on others’. This is my draft ‘talk’: My work is …
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