User:Nicole Hametner/Graduate Research Seminar 2013-TM4.02

Relation to previous practice

• Aster, 2008: topic of the night in the center/ allows to talk about the process, reveal the unseen, latent image/ limit of perception, the invisible is the main referent/ theme of absence/ introspection, exp. portrait/ psychoanalysis/ exteriors becoming screens for inner images/ contemplation/ romanticism/ juxtaposition of pictural and photographic/ duration and instant

Nicole Hametner, Aster, 2008

• Le Sapin, 2010: media specificity, woodcut-photography/ duration of production of a wooden matrice and long time exposures on a sheet film/ blackness, deep black of the matrices/ again the night as central element/ at the border of the visibility/ oscillate between negativ and positiv, day and night/ black and white images closer to our nightvision/ the process of photography, to freeze and solidify in silver/ between the pictural and the photographic/ materiality of the polaroid portrait, the photographic emulsion/ theme of the forest linked with the sublime/ portal to an imaginary world

Nicole Hametner, Le Sapin, 2010

• Schwarzes Licht, 2010: light installation/ role of the audience/ oscillation of present and absent image, latent image/ greek mythology/ Freud's three casket theory

Nicole Hametner, Schwarzes Licht, 2010

• Montchoisi, 2011: from forest to the element of water/ its different states/ from frozen towards the constant flow (now in the digital video image)

Nicole Hametner, Montchoisi, 2011	Nicole Hametner, Montchoisi, 2011

• First Trimester at Piet Zwart: tried to link with previous investigations/ theme of perception/ techniques of the observer, 19th to 21st century/ pulsing thaumathrope, theme of the after image/ dematerialisation/ from stillness to moving image/ intrigued by the temporal moving noise in the underexposure digital image

Thaumatrope, 2012