Unintended Images
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| Creator | Artyom |
| Year | 2015 |
| Bio | Artyom Kocharyan (AM) is visual artist based in Rotterdam. His work explores the contemporary visual culture, namely the culture of images that increasingly dominate the world of communication. Artyom’s work is concerned with the representation aspect of images and their ability to determine our vision of the world. Artyom is engaged with the representation apparatus that is peculiar to current digital and online culture. |
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| Website | www.artyomkocharyan.com |
Artyom Kocharyan
Artyom’s work entitled “Broken Images” is a series of digital paintings that are based on search results of Google Images. In his work Artyom examines the dynamics of current image culture, namely their multiplicity within the online world.
As a result of image proliferation the online world become a space where images appear to their viewer within multiplicity. Google’s image search is a prime example of this phenomenon. By gathering multiple images from far corners of the web, Google creates a new ‘large image’ that is being framed by our screens. However this ‘large images’ appear as ‘broken’ and fragmented since Google disregards their aesthetic form. As a tool that is intended to find single images, Google arranges individual images according to their relevance rather then their visual content. As a result, the ‘large images’ that it creates have no visual coherence and refuse to be read as a single image.
Artyom’s work reflects on the incoherence that comes with the multiplicity of images. He uses screenshots of different Google search result, which he manipulates within Photoshop by using ‘healing’ and ‘patching’ tools. For his series Artyom drew inspiration from several paintings, particularly those of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, which regardless of their overcrowded and noisy aesthetics manage to remain their wholeness as an image. Those paintings took into account the gaze of the viewer, providing pathways through which the human eye could travel and explore the image. Similar Artyom’s work attempts to rehabilitate those ‘broken’ images and reintroduce a coherence that would allow them to be read as a whole.