Marieke Self-Directed Research

My favorite English words right now:

1. Visceral

2. Cathartic

The most complete PORTRAIT possible

This research is about the notion of a visible identity. What are ways to make the most complete portrait possible? When is a portrait valid, genuine and authentic? How can you make the invisible parts of anatomy visible? Let's say with an MRI or X-Ray hospitals can make photos of the invisible. Or words, are words also valuable when you describe a person?

But people are also fluid and ever-changing so maybe still figurative images wouldn't be a wise choice. Unless they would be able to say something more then the first-hand impression.

Before I had questions about the meaning of reality but this has grown into more specific questions. The questions I have now are more clearly focused on humanity I guess. Maybe this reality is now more translated into concepts of authenticity and genuineness. So when is an image humanized or dehumanized?

To me this also has a lot to do with vulnerability and protection and the tension between them.

Important quotation from Steve's class: Maybe it's not about realities, but about different levels of abstraction.

Visual Research

As a result of the Toolbox class I made a personal challenge for myself: No programs for altering in experiments. This is to stop myself from always changing my imagery afterwards with digital programs. By doing this I hope to expand my visual language. I realized that with these programs I mainly tried to mimic infra-red, ultraviolet and (psuedo)solarisation images. So I decided to research new ways for me to get images like this.

Until now I have researched infra-red the most. I started this research by putting the Hoya IR72 filter over my Nikon D40 lens. A few of the results:

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As you can see most of these pictures are not that clear and sharp. There are some sharp ones but I didn't select them. Because in a way the poetry loses when you see it clearly (I'm not saying this is always the case). So I think I prefer it when the information you get from the image stays vague in a way.

Research

Artists:

• Masahisa Fukase
• Jesse Kanda
• Chris Cunningham
• Francis Bacon
• Richard Mosse
• Bill Viola
• Daisuke Yokota
• Matthew Cetta
• Annaleen Louwes

Stuff on infra-red and solarisation:

• Solarisation
• Rollei IR 400
• Infrared film photography
• Introduction infrared photography
• History of infrared detectors
• Thermal camera: Migrants
• Infrared D-Day
• Military sensation video
• Difference Night Vision - Thermal Imaging + Uses
• Hiro Murai - Thermal Music Video

Resources:

• Cesare Lombroso
• Museum Boerhaave
• Morbid Anatomy
• Design and the elastic mind
• CLARITY

Reading List:

• The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane - 2002
• Psychofarmaca - Solomon H Snyder
• Taking the mask off - Cortland Pfeffer, Irwin Ozborne
• Mothernism - Lise Haller Baggesen
• Objectivity - Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison
• Foundations of Social Theory - James Coleman
• Man and his Symbols - Carl G. Jung

Watch List:

• Maniac
• Mulholland Drive