CODE Remix (Flusser+DISTANCE)

Ok, so I’ve finally got this up… I was really hoping to have binary information up for the images but unfornately after getting pages and pages of code it crashed dreamweaver several dozen times. After trying to do everything by hand and freezing a computer I’ve finally given up. I really don’t understand why using the code as text would still mess with everything so much but whatever, I’ll save it for later investigations. Anyway here is my alternate version, hopefully still enjoyable…
P.S. be sure to role over the images…

processing

Routing Link

behindhand

In regards to the conclusion to Photography Reborn it is interesting to realize that the digital image is a sort of descendent to advancements in sewing production. From the initial production of images based on holes punched in cards, to ENIAC, to binary code – it is an advancement that has drawn upon many sources and continues to produce unforeseen results. The general idea though has become increasingly computer dependent, such that we see the world around us through images which are really depections of numbers. Without our true understanding, a great portion of our day is spent reading the interpretation of a series of 1’s and 0’s – from actually looking at a computer screen, to looking at a magazine, to making a quick telephone call – we are increasingly surrounded and interpreted by binary. In homage to the movie Pi – what does the binary sequence for the word god equal?

Aside from fun realizations of how dependent we are on having computers interpret codes for us, it is interesting for us as artists to consider these behind the scenes ideas that make up our world as well as others. Inspiration comes to us from everything around us, each day may bring a new subconscious influence or an eagerly determined reactionary goal. Thus as an artist, I find it increasingly important to learn, see, and hear of the world around me. By chance and again shown in class I have become increasingly familiar with the videos posted online by the TED organization. These being recordings (cast in 1’s and 0’s, mind you) of some of the greatest minds brought together to lecture on their ideas and breakthroughs. As an artist, curious to all around me, I can not help but find great excitement in the education of the current ground breaking thoughts in the world – excitement for both their success and failure – c’est la vie.

Of a Surreal Sublimity

When looking at digital photography and the breadth of its use in terms as a medium it is interesting to look at how it draws on many movements within the history of art. Pushing to define itself, it draws on earlier movements, most particularly Surrealism, using such mindsets and defining new boundaries creating their own new movements and subgroups under the idea of digital. The ability to create scenes seemingly based in reality but with a certain outlandish dreamlike quality creates a tension and intrigue that is cause for a degree of introspection. We explore the reality of the world around us with a new comprehension, questioning the real as well as the possible. It is this thought of the possible that may lead us to consider our direction as a culture, value and fate, as well as our emotions, fears and aspirations. These are not new thoughts being shown to the viewer though art but thoughts that have a new extension through what may be digitally composed. Following in line with the intents of photography to view and express itself through the world around us, we continue but with a new vigor to understand ourselves, the real, and the possible; challenged to see in a new compass of direction.

Book, Loretta Lux, 2003


Bahrain 1, Andreas Gursky, 2005

dumb but fun – dalí on the sun

Dalí on the sun