Digital Hybridity
I’m part of a research project at the University of Derby, a two-month on-line discussion of Digital Hybridity . The topic itself seems to change every time I think about it. Hybridity is a...
Category: art
Gained in Translation
Translation is probably the core idea in Flusser’s thought (Guldin Philosophieren zwischen den Sprachen, 2005). He was never concerned with accuracy with respect to an “original”, though. It is not about some sort of...
Taking Graffiti Seriously
Should graffiti be treated as art? If it means white gloves and provenance records and the eternal search for authorship, surely not. But if it’s to say that graffiti ought to be taken seriously...
Data Photography
The photographer Deborah Baker — a colleague — and I have both been wondering what to call a kind of photography that 1.) cheerfully ignores any responsibility to be “true” to vision or history...
Studying Graffiti
Can you “study” images? One of the photography students carries a camera at all times, and makes very consistent, composed “notes” about visual messages — graffiti — she finds, well everywhere… She finds these–some...
Drawing and magic
I did the second Mediascape lecture today–the title was drawing, although the idea was broader–prehistoric media, that is, media before writing. It was meant to include carving, modelling — probably “performance” (some kinds). But...