Dive into the archives.
- this photo is me #6 (the ending)
What is a completely new experience for a “normal” member of society is being exposed to an abstract audience of the World Wide Web – audience that they can identify very vaguely if at all. Additionally through the Internet photographic services an ongoing conversation is enabled. Services like Flickr allow the users to “comment” on each other’s photographs. And by this ongoing conversation such services become social institutions in their own rights – with a complex web of social connections, own codes of conduct, own law enforcement etc…
- this photo is me #5
In the reality of Internet every photographer (creator of visual representation) can reach an audience consisting of people they never personally met. Internet services that allow access to this audiences are user cantered and however it is possible to remain relatively anonymous more and more users decide to tie content they publish over Internet with quite personal information. The consequence of this state of affairs is that it becomes more and more important to the individual how the content of the photograph published represents them (Giddens A, 1992: 8). “It became clear” writes Susan Sontag, “that there was not just a simple, unitary activity called seeing (recorded by, aided by cameras) but “photographic seeing,” which was both a new way for people to see and a new activity for them to perform”.
- lazy sunday surf
I intended to write another instalment of the “sunday hangover surf” today, but since this weekend I’m alive and kicking and actually very much rested it wouldn’t be appropriate. Still it is Sunday, so do not expect a rigorous methodology (or indeed any methodology) to manifest itself. Research really is the soul of writing, if you write in order to figure things out and it should be done accordingly to the state of mind and on a Sunday that means - lazily. Mike Skinner, The Work Book Project, Kevin Kelly and more.
- this photo is me #4
It was only later, based on the map that I developed a linear order for the text of the essay. When one disembarks on the journey into the unknown, a map can always come handy. And reading Foucault I learned to appreciate uncertainty as necessary condition of critical enterprise, rather than associating it “with the miscarriage of thought, with error or carelessness”
- digitalize
it is really tough to convert people from one mind set to the other (as usual). For which reason I decided to cut back on preaching and get on with the practice. Enter digitalize - which will be a new series of interviews and reports looking into how creative industries utilise (or not) digital media and the Internet.
