A guitar. A fireplace. Dark coal-scuttle. A carpet and a banjo. Things left around. A domestic photoshoot, homes and gardens, good house keeping, interiors. Objects of light, photons, stream through the pinhole to the sensor, connecting with silicon, releasing charge-objects to be encoded. photons, cells, pixels, data. Software actants go to work, arranging data, colourspaces. …
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Imag(in)ing 2012
Submitted a photo essay to a ‘real’ academic journal. They didn’t want it so, heh I’ll publish it in my own publication: Text here :: ‘2012’ is an event, a brand, a spectacle, a geographical space, a cultural and media practice, a political and economic assemblage. As “Big Build”, “London 2012” or “legacy”, ‘2012’ is …
A bit of new year carpentry: Ekaw Snagennif
As you may know, I’m engaging in a bit of my practice-research around object-oriented photography and publishing on/in/through Facebook. Using my favourite new camera (the screengrab facility on my phone), I’m ‘taking’ photos of the images in the Haystack, uploading them back into the space (where they JPEG-encoded as visible images). I’m (re)mixing these with …
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O-Zone and object-oriented photography
My video response to Ian Bogost and Robert Jackson’s thoughts on objects, images and photography on OO Frequency part of the O-Zone Journal. Also available on YouTube.
The Decisive Moment
Robert Frank: object-oriented photographer
Revised version of my Frank musings. “The photographing of America” is a large order — read at all literally, the phrase would be an absurdity. What I have in mind, then, is observation and record of what one naturalized American finds to see in the United States that signifies the kind of civilization born here and spreading …
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