Belay: 15 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 ‘scopic apparatus’ within a “digital imag(in)ing pipeline”. My aim is to …
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Thoughts on the viewer
The “imag(in)ing apparatus” discussed here, with which the jpeg imag(in)ing apparatus is enfolded, includes the ‘window’ the screen and frame (Friedberg 2006) component ‘through’ which the jpeg imag(in)ings appear visible and the RAW imag(in)ings remain unvisible. This window component is perhaps best thought of as a viewer, paralleling the screen on the back of the …
A tale of two cameras and a broken apparatus
In effect there are two camera/apparatuses. The first is immaterial but not virtual. Although it cannot be held or mounted on a tripod, although it ‘withdraws from view’ that does not make it any less real an object or any less material. Its power to imag(in)e as well as its alliances with other actants in …
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More Tommy Cooper than David Blaine
The show looked a little modest. Not really an exhibition and not quite a performance. A display certainly but hardly a blockbuster. But it was certainly large-scale, worldwide some would say. It wasn’t technically difficult to put together. Just a laptop and a camera. He half wanted it to be big, loud, an event somewhere …
Draft: A fragmentary literature review
My research, emerging from the dialectical practice-research methodology outlined in Chapter XX, is focused on ‘chasing protocol’, understanding jpeg, as an active force in the creation of a particular distributed scopic regime. This concern arises from the the ‘failure’ of my imag(in)ing experiments to hold onto protocol. That failure to pin down jpeg, to unfold …
I press the button, protocol does the rest
When light enters the lens of my Olympus digital SLR (DSLR), after a journey through the mirrors and pentaprism, it hits the camera’s Live MOS sensor. This metal–oxide–semiconductor sensor (peculiar to Olympus, Leica and Panasonic cameras) is a device that converts an optical image to an electric signal – light becomes data. That process however …
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