Keil captures the complex subjective processing of
image circulation as it occurs for each individual within the politics of self - representation; the sexualisation of women, the celebration of skill and / or sex appeal on stage, the aestheticisation of feet and skin, the agency of reclaiming it all by self - branding — by both outfit and needle.
Working mainly in sculpture and video, Guan Xiao explores how ways of seeing are now influenced by digital
image circulation as an increasingly dominant source of knowledge and information exchange.
Not exact matches
His denial of the visit has raised questions
as to who is behind the
circulation of the
images and what the person aims at achieving in the end.
If demonlover was one of the most scrutinized films of 2003, it was because director Olivier Assayas boldly chose to so directly enter,
as well
as represent, the new technology at the center of
image circulation and the multibillion dollar entertainment industry.
As part of an ongoing archeological project, Hashem el Madani: Studio Practices, Zaatari has selected
images from Madani's archive to put back into
circulation today.
Themes explored in the exhibition include emergent ideas of the body and notions of human enhancement; the internet
as a site of both surveillance and resistance; the
circulation and control of
images and information; possibilities for new subjectivities, communities, and virtual worlds; and new economies of visibility initiated by social media.
The exhibition and publication will be the first to dive deeply into his sophisticated understanding of
image networks,
circulation, and proliferation, positioning Thomas
as a significant figure linking the past (Pop art, the Pictures Generation, and conceptualism) to the current ways art operates
as an active, heterogeneous platform to engage and critique the Internet age.
This work significantly augments the ICA / Boston's painting collection while also building on strategies of artists such
as Sherrie Levine and Cady Noland that introduce notions of the painterly, the decorative, and the use of digital
circulation of
images into their work.
Using my personal archive
as source material, the work questions the nature of
image production,
circulation, and distribution.
Domanović's work is concerned with the
circulation and reception of
images and information, particularly
as they shift meaning and change register, traversing different contexts and historical circumstances.
This panel will consider the browser
as a context for
circulation and display through a discussion of its formal possibilities, from moiré screen effects to parallax scrolling to moving
image loops,
as well
as the social possibilities afforded by digital networks.
Whether the works conjure memories of iconic fugitives, such
as Patty Hearst and Angela Davis, or incorporate loaded words, like safety and fear, viewers are prompted to question their assumptions about criminality and contemplate how the
circulation of
images influences their ideas...
A central focus of the exhibition is the ubiquity of the mural art form
as a backdrop for the Polaroid photos taken in prison visitation rooms,
as well
as the microeconomy and unspoken negotiation embedded in the creation and
circulation of these
images — which must be purchased with many hours of labor by the inmates.
The artist calls into question the economy that has developed around the
circulation of these
images as internet content, exploring the sinister aspects of this increased visibility, including issues of appropriation and exploitation.
Artists are often highly attuned to infrastructural change, perhaps because the practice of art requires the continual
circulation of data,
images and objects,
as well
as the constant negotiation of changing media standards and forms.
The politics of
image production and
circulation become both unravelled yet get more tangled
as she examined the «overload of communications» happening in the the digital age.
Together these texts appear
as a parallel production to Beshty's artistic work: they reflect on the conditions of the realization and
circulation of
images, undermining distinctions between media, abstraction and figuration, and proposing new aesthetic criteria for the works examined.
As an abyss of pornography has moved from under the mattress to the mobile phone screen, gay identity and its relationship to the
circulation of
images is often left unexamined.
The piece references patterns of
image circulation - an important trope in Soda's works - displaying our refracted reality,
as well
as our expanded levels of engagement with
images and our newly enhanced abilities to produce and consume them.
Viola describes pieces like this
as «sculpting with time», and explains that the work «concerns the enclosing nature of self -
image and the external
circulation of potentially infinite (and therefore unattainable) states of being all revolving around the still point of the central self... The entire space becomes an interior for the revelations of a constantly turning mind absorbed with itself.»
On the occasion of Ocean of
Images, we included nineteen artists, gave the show a title, and, as you mentioned, we were really looking at wider themes across the included works, including issues of dissemination and the circulation of images at that m
Images, we included nineteen artists, gave the show a title, and,
as you mentioned, we were really looking at wider themes across the included works, including issues of dissemination and the
circulation of
images at that m
images at that moment.
Artists: Hans - Christian Lotz, Vivian Suter, Henry Deposit, Brian Khek, Mathis Collins, Lin May Saeed Exhibition title: Blocking Curated by: Jesse Stecklow Venue: Martos Gallery, Los Angeles, US Date: July 23 — August 22, 2015 Photography:
images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Martos Gallery, Los Angeles Martos Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Blocking, a group exhibition concerned with the stage
as a physical and conceptual device for the continued
circulation of objects, material and data.
Joselit writes, «There is an entire political economy of
image circulation, which should be of major concern to contemporary art,» adding, «It's very important to remember that what we recognize
as global is a tiny subset of world art.»
They are the constitutive qualities of collective experience, and inform the ideas of sharing and collective reworking within the Internet environment,
as well
as collective agency,
image production, reproduction,
circulation, dissemination, consumption and more.
Working mainly in sculpture and video, artist Guan Xiao (b. 1983, lives and works in Beijing) explores how ways of seeing are now influenced by digital
image and information
circulation as an increasingly dominant source of knowledge exchange.
His photographs range from portraits, still - lifes, landscapes and sky photographs to scenes involving subcultures and the
circulation of goods, spaces of living and transit, abstract and medium - reflexive
images; they initiate a polyphonic visual discourse on issues that affect the contemporary world
as a whole.
Global
image circulation via social media is generally perceived
as either over-controlled or out of control.
The group exhibition invites seven international artists to examine the power of the
image in the contemporary world, but «the real task for them is to filter the
images, to recognise the systems that
images operate within, to follow their paths of
circulation in the contemporary (art) world, to predict their abilities and the sociopolitical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions
images acquire
as they traverse different realms of reality».
Themes explored in the exhibition include emergent ideas of the body and notions of human enhancement; the internet
as a site of both surveillance and resistance; the
circulation and control of
images and information; the possibilities for exploring identity and community afforded by virtual domains; and new economies of visibility accelerated by social media.
But these are so chancy
as to imply a critical point: that the rising flood of
images in
circulation dissolves whatever substance we define by linking one picture with another.
Taking
as its title a nod to Albert Camus» four - part epistolary essay «Letters to a German Friend,» the work not only extends Zaatari's interest in excavated narratives and the
circulation of
images in times of war, it also raises crucial questions about national representation and perpetual crisis by reviving Camus's plea: «I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.»
Heatsick, who included her in his «10 artists heatsick rates «interview, was interested in the way the work «dealt with notions of recycling,
circulation and eco branding»,
as well
as the way her musical group Plug (with Sian Dorrer) dealt with stock imagery «to [confuse] the listener
as to the public
image of the group.»