In the Uncanny Valley

Research notes about art, and about what is uncannily similar to it...

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Nathan Jurgenson, The Social Photo. On Photography and Social Media, Verso Books, New York 2019

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Audemars Piguet unveils Ryoji Ikeda's 'data-verse' trilogy - 1st chapter

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“We have been sending postcards and snapshots since the early time of photography,” Mr. Chéroux said, though noting that the volume and intensity of communication have of course grown with social media. “The whole exhibition is playing with this tension,” he said. “It’s new — and not so new.”

Jori Finkel, Tracing the Roots of Photo Sharing, From Mail Art to Instagram, in The New York Times, April 4, 2019

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Scott Stein, “Facebook is building a virtual memory palace out of your photos”, in Cnet, May 1, 2018

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Irene Fenara, Identità mobile, 2015 | Polaroids | cm.11x09 each

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Jon Rafman, Dream Journal 2016-2017, 2017. Colour HD video with stereo sound, 49’17”. Music by James Ferraro and Oneohtrix Point Never. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers

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Twee Whistler, I Only Hope To Fall Asleep Before I Fall Apart, 2018

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Michele Gabriele, HALFY-EMPTY (She walks home alone at night), 2018. More info

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Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Winter, A Million Seasons, 2013, Pigment Inkjet Print, Variable dimensions

“an attempt to describe images of four seasons with a million photos each. A million Flickr photos tagged ‘spring’ are collected, and each photo is turned into one pixel with an average color. The one million pixels from one million photos compose an image of Spring. The images of the rest of the seasons are created the same way.”

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Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann, Knowledge Comes with Death's Release, 2017  

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Thomas Bayrle. More info

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Olia Lialina, Self Portrait, 2018

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Mishka Henner, Photography is an advert, 2010. More about the project

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What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says

A new group show called “Being” moves away from last year’s navel-gazing digital obsession to explore reality-based portraiture, politics and gender.

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Rafael Fabre, CNI, 2017. French ID Card with 3D portrait

“On april 7th, 2017, I made a request of a french ID card. All the papers asked for the card were legal and authentic, the demand was accepted and I have now my new French ID card.The photo I submitted for this request is actually a 3D model created on a computer, by means of several different software and techniques used for special effects in movies and in the video game industry. It is a digital image, where the body is absent, the result of an artificial process.The image corresponds to the official demands for an ID: it is resembling, is recent, and answers all the criteria of framing, light, bottom and contrasts to be observed.The document validating my french identity in the most official way thus presents today an image of me which is practically virtual, a version of video game, fiction.”

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Kim Young-Hun, P1724-Electronic Nostalgia, 2017. Oil on canvas, 89 x 130 cm.