A story

by on January 15, 2013 in Aesthetics, Love sick, week 1

Today I had a walk to the library. On the way down I noticed this graffiti on the wall of the art college and I took a photo.

Here it is…

The author of this anonymous piece of artwork is not connected to me. Our paths crossed by chance, in an asynchronous mode…  By taking the photo I turned it into an object, a mediated artefact taken out of the physical context, placed into a digital context.

I re-appropriated the image, I now entitle it ‘love sick’, I can make it into a narrative, I made it public.

Now I can start thinking of a story….

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  1. Phil Devine January 25, 2013 at 2:28 pm #

    Hi Gina, Interesting, but “physical context, placed into a digital context” I would suggest that it makes no difference being digital – The photo you took was digital? If you made a drawing of it, or a painting? If you cut it out of the wall and hung it in a gallery? Its simply a representation, an affirmation of existent… What is unique about the digital that makes this existent artifact active and effective? Maybe if you could understand/witness digital phenomena that was directly associated with is ‘Photograph’ otherwise it is only photography, and should viewed as photography?

    I’m trying to look within physical context for digital phenomena, that way it should be possible to uncover digital cultures and true digital artifacts that define that culture. For instance the move away from economic production to spectacle…

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  2. Phil Devine January 25, 2013 at 2:56 pm #

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

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  3. Giraf87 January 25, 2013 at 9:47 pm #

    The original though is graffiti: spray painted and material.

    for this particularly post, I was considering the idea of crossing the digital boundary, entering the matrix if you like… This spray painted image bears no real reference to our mediated word, until I decided to put it into cyberspace.

    Through this blog, it has entered a pathway: the tagging, the naming, it is almost like a digital birth.

    There must be trillions of these data bits dancing around, digital memories.

    Last year for instance I did a graffiti project as part of an urban #udrift (see Twitter). At lunchtime I wandered around Edinburgh city centre and took loads of photos. Recently I revisited these places and some graffiti has now disppeared, washed away…

    Now some of these images I put on google maps. I will try and do a separate post for this as it is slightly easier I think to put the references in and further expand!

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  5. Giraf87 February 10, 2013 at 8:41 pm #

    Having read the article ‘Mind the Gap(s): discourses and discontinuity in digital literacies’ by GUY MERCHANT I would say the posting of the graffiti image and subsequent inclusion in another Pinterest board is an example of the folksonomy he is discussing. The tagged word that ‘gave it away’ is ‘love’…

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