1296 Images
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This project came about as a response to the 36MC confinement. As a participant I am not locked into a building for 36 hours, yet have taken up the restriction imposed by the time element. My confinement is also restricted to the operation of my own computer workstation, housed in an office within my home environment. All aspects of this project must be mediated via this workstation. During the 36 hour period 36 images will be made for each given hour. Thus 1296 Images in total. Participants have been invited to contribute a title for each of the images. This has been activated via international and national e-mail lists and a World Wide Web site, as well as this paper. Already, as I write this, suggestions have been received hours before the project is due to start. Please add your own titles as a contribution using e-mail. To some extent this project is also a response to The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project. 'A round-the-clock posting of sequenced hyper-modern photographs by Brad Brace with reactive imagery from respondents world-wide'. And also Core Dump by Brad Brace -'a massive collection of compact, entitled and engaging imagery'. By generating a body of work which no single viewer is likely to see in its entirety Brad Brace disinvests any value in the images themselves. In the 12hr-ISBN- JPEG Project viewers are also encouraged to alter the images and do what they like with them. Responsibility for authorship is handed over. Each of the 1296 Images will have little formal value in themselves. I am less interested in the visual content of each one. More the intervention implicated by participants suggesting titles. Visitors to the project are also invited to register ownership of an image. in this case the image will be e-mailed or printed and posted to its owner. After which my copy will be deleted. Responsibility for authorship and ownership is handed over. To document the project a record of titles and participants will be kept along with any other unregistered images, these may be published at a later date. There is undoubtedly a tidal wave of digital imagery that has been produced largely in the last two years, with the expansion of the World Wide Web and its multimedia content. In the same way that the word processor has enabled us to access text in previously unconceived ways, we are now having to accustom ourselves to a proliferation of the visual image, to find new ways to sift through the medium. The potential for infinite reproduction and continuous change does force us to re negotiate our terms of interpretation. Culture is still becoming increasingly visual in the way communication is mediated to others. For the artist to retain some authority, there must be a willingness to negotiate those terms and make a contribution.
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| Confinement | ||
| Collaboration | 6x6 | Self |
| Virtual Installation | 1296 Images | |
| SkinSky | ||
| taylor.nuttall@mcr1.poptel.org.uk | ||
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