I have been thinking about this project for some time and although it ties in very much with what I’m doing for OCA Digital Image & Culture coursework, it is separate. It may inform some of the exercises and assignments and might in time fit nicely with something specific in the module. But for now it I will keep it contained here on this blog which exists outside of the OCA framework.
The title is Manipulated and it is an ongoing performative piece. It is improvised and lives on Instagram. The ‘cast’ consists of:
- A book published in 1937 called My Leica and I, Leica Amateurs show their Pictures by Photokino.Verlag Hellmut Elsner K.G in Berlin, Germany.
- Any historical information I can access via my smartphone from 1937
- My smartphone and the digital apps which live on it
- Events from 2018 (the year in which I am making it)
The process, in the spirit of Wiliam Kentridge, is a metaphor, including the format it lives on – Instagram, and that metaphor is an integral part of the work. If I were to contextualize it for an OCA assignment I would refer a great deal, amongst other texts, to The Rhetoric of JPEG by Daniel Palmer. (The Photographic Image and Digital Culture, Second Edition, Routledge, 2012)
I aim to keep going until it feels like I have done all I can with the book material. I like that it is separate from my own IG account for a variety of reasons. I may write some more about this later but for now, I think I have said everything that is necessary.
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