Introduction In the guise of a long-suffering PhD supervisor Latour tells his rhetorical student: “If I were you, I would abstain from frameworks altogether. Just describe the state of affairs at hand”{Latour 2004}. Following this lead, my “Methodology Chapter” seeks to present the approach I took to my research question by explaining how and why …
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Belay: 28 February 2011
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 …
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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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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Photography not photographs: apparatus as event
As my work has developed from taking photographs, through developing photographic installations in the form of mash-ups and interfaces to building a “camera”, it has become clearer that my work is about photography not photographs. To take such a position as an analyst is one thing. To do so as an ‘artist’ is another. To …
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What a perfomance
The demonstration of the “digital imag(in)ing apparatus” is more than a final flourish or a show-and-tell, it is an integral part of the project. In some ways the ‘demonstration’ is a necessary part of the apparatus, not only as a proof of concept, but also as a critical component in the network I am setting …