Who is in the group?

Cemal, Mia, Felix, Andreas, Sonia

Impromptu

Group 1: What is the apparatus?

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

Burden of Representation

Mark Poster: Foucault and Databases

Robert Shore: Post-Photography https://www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Photography-Artist-Camera-Elephant-Books/dp/1780672284

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

What are the core interests of the group?

First task: Read the book Vilem Flusser: Towards the Pholosophy of Photography

Additinal reading: Giorgio Agamben: What is the Apparatus?