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Post-Digital Photography |
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josephscott80 (a group admin) says:
09 Mar 07 - More discussion please!! :-D
09 Mar 07 - More discussion please!! :-D
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About Post-Digital PhotographyDefinition: "In one sense, post-digital refers to works that reject the hype of the so-called digital revolution. The familiar digital tropes of purity, pristine sound and images and perfect copies are abandoned in favour of errors, glitches and artefacts. And in another sense (as in the term post-modernism) it refers to the continuation or completion of that trajectory." (Source: Ian Andrews; "Post-digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism" Inspiration: Kim Cascone; "The Aesthetics of Failure"; http://www.mediamatic.net/article-5901-en.html) Post-digital photography is ABOUT: the discussion and the aesthetics of the unique ways digital photographic technology fails to match its claims (e.g. imperfect copies, loss of quality due to compression or resizing, etc.). This group is also concerned with images proving that digital photography is not merely an extention of film photography but a new art-form. And as with all art-forms, what is interesting is not how well you can follow the rules but how far you can deviate from them to express yourself. Therefore, this is not the place for conventional use of technology such as Photoshop, etc.. Hence, works that could not have been taken with film cameras, works that look NOTHING like film photography (i.e. do not resemble what we see, but instead what a digital camera sees) are welcome here. If it looks like a photograph, it's not a post-digital photograph. If it's just an example of digital technology's power to transform images, it's not a post-digital photograph (the images MUST show an ambivalent and questioning approach to digital photographic technology). In short, post-digital photography explores the unique limitations of the medium and the possibilities these limitations allow. ---------- Post-digital photography is NOT: "digital photography", "glitch photography", "digital art", photographs merely put through Photoshop filters, etc. ---------- This is a place for individuals who do with photography what the artists examined in Kim Cascone's "The Aesthetics of Failure" do with music. As this is a moderated group, members are assured that the Group Pool will only contain photos relevant to the group. Please bear this in mind before you submit a photo, as irrelevant material (i.e. photos that look like film photos, that utilise digital techniques in a conventional 'digital' way, or that are just plain ugly) will be deleted from the Group Pool. Sorry :-( Members who do contribute works are encouraged to describe how their contributions show a 'post-digital', rather than merely 'digital' or even 'film', aesthetic. Although members are welcome to just post images to the Group Pool, the main reason for the group is to explore, debate and define the idea of post-digital photography. Therefore, please use the discussion board, either to respond to previous posts or to post something new. ---------- NOTE: This is NOT a place to post 'glitch' photographs. This is not only because there is a group already devoted to this - 'Glitch Art' - but also because 'glitch photography' celebrates the results of malfunction (i.e. when things go wrong) whereas this group is concerned with the limitations of the functions (i.e. when things go right they still look 'wrong'). |
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