User:Nicole Hametner/Trimester2

Nicole Hametner, Trimester 2, 2013 

Self Directed Research

Description

Research Statement

Media

Photo (scanns from b&w prints)
Video (evt only stills)

Essay

RWRM

Thematic Project - Encyclopedia of Media Objects

Personal entry - Black Box
Visitors entry - The Alphabet

Description of Black Box

This research was initiated by the look of an old folded up viewcamera that reminded the shape of an alien box. The theme of the black box was the subsequent thought, brought with the fascination for the unknown within, where only input and output is known, but the transition between remains ambiguous. Besides a short overview of the technical image in media history, the main subject in this entry will be the analog digital conversion. The construction of the analog photographic image and the digital video image will be juxtaposed and serve as foundation to examine the idea of the so-called loss of materiality. This process of transformation will be looked at in a rather metaphorical way and expresses some philosophical and poetic aspects of its media specificity. - Black Box