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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.

Invisible Economics

I am interested in thinking about physics about different dimensions and how this could translate into a particular visual language for my works(explained here). This is then a context to use for the understanding of systems of money and labor that cannot be rendered by the visible eye, visibility being a space of whats politically enabled.