expanding the field - week 01
What is a photograph when removed from its borders?
Our first project this semester revolves around reimagining our chosen mediums and exploring the idea of hybridity - the photograph as object (sculpture), or the photograph with movement and narrative (screen arts) - a transformation.
Maybe a way of expanding the field could be through experimentation and interactivity.
How does image currently exist in the world and how does it frame the world?
In the reading, Eastman Museum A matter of memory: Photography as object in the digital age, various artists speak about the medium’s metamorphosis from print to digital and society’s relationship to memory.
“Digital photographs appear and disappear faster requiring short term attention” - Mladen Bizumic
“Photography as process” - Ellen Carey
“Digital is different species to prints” - Leana Letinsky
“Digital image does not have a fixed body” - Lilly Lulay
“A photographic print is less fleeting” - Nick Marshall
“Sensory experience - touch.” - Diane Meyer
“Where the past lives” - Melanie Willhide
“Physical materiality” - Augusta Wood
Knowing this, how can I elaborate on my medium and its preconceptions?
What can I do to give image life?