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Image Consciousness into Archive

I am interested in the sociological paradigms of computation and image understanding. As an indigenous person, the concept of image making is linked to technological advancement and globalization, the camera is a sign of modernity, the computational camera all the more so. But there are also means of image making that are more tradition, more indigenous to human physicality(mark-making). I am interested in dealing with the images of this history, specifically from an archive of the indigenous-camera interaction, though essayistic moving image making.

Computational Image-making

Looking at images as pure technological beings, I am interested in how the modern day visual explorer (no matter where they are) experiences sublime purely through technology (porn/videogames/TikTok/GoogleEarth/general internet images). I am interested in how computational image formulations(purity is pixel and code) can interact with real(capture) imagery as juxtapositions of changing "exploratory" contexts.

Hauntology and Cyberspace Depression

The internet allows for time-travel like never before. In this temporal sense(given remix culture, "comeback" aesthetics), the present seems to be haunted by nostalgia. I am interested in this distortion and whether it engages with the caged individual(caged within the grid of the pixel, the code, the cubicle of online work) through photorealistic image regeneration.