Reflections on a personal project exploring the nature of art in the age of digital reproduction.
Tag: Digital afterlife
Black Boxes
Part of my MA final major project. Exploring the metaphor of the black box in relation to machine learning and digital afterlife
Six Centuries
Inspired by the paintings of Rachel Ruysch (1164-1750). The publication includes machine generated images and text as a means of considering the digital afterlife.
Envisioning digital afterlife: The Final Cut & Be Back Soon (Black Mirror)
“Is this him? Yes, this is him.” A Zoe chip is handed to the Cutter (scene from The Final Cut) Through my wider research several recommendations have come up recently for moving image representations of digital afterlife. I have now watched two in this genre ‘The Final Cut’ (Dir: Omar Naim) and ‘Be Right Back’… Read More →
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery. Wellcome Collection
“While working in different eras and media, Spence and Ashery challenge the medical gaze and look beyond a diagnosis to form a more complex portrait of their subjects. They foreground collaborative ways of working to create a safe space where vulnerability is made visible.” (Exhibition catalogue) As I walked through the main doors I was… Read More →
Exploring death and the digital afterlife
We cannot not leave traces (Merzeau, 2009) Having initially explored decollage and digital decollage I felt I had not quite got to where I wanted. I liked the final images but the digital versions in particular, had become too stylized and lost some of their depth and ‘edge’. In parallel I had been working on… Read More →
Collaborating: thank you Catherine Banks
It struck me that in my digital afterlife I will not be the one manipulating or appropriating my images. In order to experience what this might mean I asked Catherine, a fellow OCA student and my co-curator on the ‘Time’ exhibition, if she might consider responding to my work. I asked her to work with… Read More →
Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating electronic remains
Bereavement means the experience of deprivation and loss (Moller, 1996) and ‘grief is the primarily emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one.’ (Stroebe & Schut, 1998) Human response to loss is not genetically determined but culturally learned. (DeSpelder & Strickland, 1996) The article begins by highlighting the socially constructed nature of grieving and… Read More →