User:Yoana Buzova/assessment prototyping

Yoana Buzova, Trimester 01, Year 2012

remake/remix/broadcast

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~ybuzova/remix/gallery02.html

Description

Key words : icon, modification, recombination, remodulation, remix, remake, reenactment, amateur(wild) images, self-broadcast

After reading some text in the Reading and Writing Methodologies class, I made a small prototype, inspired by the subjects of those texts. My idea revolves the iconic side of images and their authenticity. We moved from the mechanical reproduction to the digital recombination. We lost the aura of symbolic images, now we gained it again by being part of them, by manipulating them as we wish. This becomes once again a form of ritual, a return to the unique function of the artwork. I selected some images (from the internet) that I find good to illustrate my idea.Then put them in a simple structure of pixelated images, that at first sight all look very familiar. That is only until the viewer slowly reveals the 'true' images, hidden underneath the pixelated versions by simply hovering over them.

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VERSIONS is a prototype of a project I' like to develop further. It is an online gallery of images I have selected and put together. The gallery is a tight grid of the images, each fit next to another. They are all pixelated to an extent one cannot see the details of the image but can easily guess what is it, as selection focuses on iconic, very well-known images (of paintings, logos, figures, politicians). Lack of sharpness and detail cannot confuse the viewer to be sure what the images are. Only after the viewer moves the cursor, its position reveals the non pixelated, sharp, detailed image. That is when the viewer finds out that nothing is what one expected or what it seems at first. The images are all remixes, reenactments and remakes of the originals.

I'd like to

• develop this further way (would appreciate ideas from you)
• use something similar to or paper.js/division raster to make an interactive projection/exhibition of images, that the visitor reveals himself, by physical interaction (for example by 'wiping' the image from extremely pixilated to a clear one, until it shows up, "surprisingly" not what was expected .

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