Mia/Annotated Reader
First task: Read the book Vilem Flusser: Towards the Pholosophy of Photography
Additinal reading: Giorgio Agamben: What is the Apparatus?
Group 1: What is the apparatus?
cemal Mia Felix Andreas Sonia
author and apparatus as one organism?
Consciousness of the apparatus (tool to create images) a) the apparatus being consicous b) we being conscious of the apparatus
Joanna Zylinska: Nonhuman Photography - https://research.gold.ac.uk/20871/1/MED_Zylinska_2015c.pdf (intro) https://www.nonhuman.photography/
Light and Photomedia: A New History and Future of the Photographic Image - Jai McKenzie
Vilem Flusser: Apparatus Theory - which texts fit into this domain? - Flusser: http://cmuems.com/excap/readings/flusser-towards-a-philosophy-of-photography.pdf
What is an Apparatus? - Georgio Agamben - https://soundenvironments.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/agamben-what-is-and-apparatus.pdf
Lacanian Gaze Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault: -This is not a Pipe https://monoskop.org/images/9/99/Foucault_Michel_This_Is_Not_a_Pipe.pdf
Slavoj Zizek: -https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/on-photography/
-The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fright_of_Real_Tears
(Indexicality - C.S. Peirce, Noam Chomsky - semiotics of photography and film.) (Talk by Isabelle Graw and Benjamin Buchloh on different theories of indexicality (de and en) https://www.textezurkunst.de/99/lost-traces-life/)
CORE BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY: John Berger: -Ways of Seeing: http://waysofseeingwaysofseeing.com/ -Understanding a photograph: http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter16/8/Berger.pdf Jeff Wall: Conceptual, Postconceptual, Nonconceptual: Photography and the Depictive Arts https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667420?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents
IMAGES "WITHOUT AN AUTHOR" On AI as artist (not sure if relevant, still need to read it), Sean Dorrance Kelly (Harvard): https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612913/a-philosopher-argues-that-an-ai-can-never-be-an-artist/
Hito Steyerl