![DDDDoomed, by R. Gerald Nelson
*This Publication forms Vol. I of VIII of a series entitled Img Ctrl - Texts regarding the contemporary image world.
Edition MK
“They defined their collectomania as art. The art of what?They seemed to think that their art, in posting a barrage of truly luscious images on the Internet, involved “explaining[ing] in a new way the world unknown to you.” [Sziha Vertov, quoted in John Berger, Ways of Seeing]. The problem is that the luscious images were just that, and nothing else, just pretty pixels. No content, contextual indicators, knowledge or anyting of real intelligible value could be gleaned …They would have effortlessly clocked their little “like” and “reblog” buttons in response to some anonymous, reactionary IA Supporter on his Tumblr blog, of some skinny. half-naked, tousled-haired, Brooklyn-girl, shot Terry Richardson style…
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What became Evident to many was hat IAs were capitalizing on aesthetically engaging qualities of imagery circulating online- their activities increasingly, and eventually completely, dismissed an image’s history and its essential identifying information
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What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of art and to remove it – or, rather, to remove its images which they reproduce – from any preserve. For the first time ever, images of art [and now, also documentary images that epitomizes our cultures] have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way as language surrounds us. They have entered the mainstream of life over which they longer, in themselves, have power. [John Berger, Ways of Seeing p 32]
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Though what had been revealed during the rise in popularity of the IA website was that IAs were alarmingly unyielding to both the importance of the images themselves as well as to the collection’s symbolic value and, as such, were more interested in solidifying their own authorial claims on the selection and arrangement of images that were, in most cases, never theirs to begin with.
The Image’s Quest to Move Far and Fast Excerpts and analysis at the Walker Art Centre Design Blog
Highlighted sections from DDDDoomed (w/ notes)from Hyperjunk
Credit in the Straight WWW: “DDDDoomed”, Berger, and the Image Aggregatorfrom Keehnan Konyha’s 2thewalls](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4uf5fusE1r5cn96o1_1280.jpg)
DDDDoomed, by R. Gerald Nelson
*This Publication forms Vol. I of VIII of a series entitled Img Ctrl -
Texts regarding the contemporary image world.
“They defined their collectomania as art. The art of what?They seemed to think that their art, in posting a barrage of truly luscious images on the Internet, involved “explaining[ing] in a new way the world unknown to you.” [Sziha Vertov, quoted in John Berger, Ways of Seeing]. The problem is that the luscious images were just that, and nothing else, just pretty pixels. No content, contextual indicators, knowledge or anyting of real intelligible value could be gleaned …They would have effortlessly clocked their little “like” and “reblog” buttons in response to some anonymous, reactionary IA Supporter on his Tumblr blog, of some skinny. half-naked, tousled-haired, Brooklyn-girl, shot Terry Richardson style…
…
What became Evident to many was hat IAs were capitalizing on aesthetically engaging qualities of imagery circulating online- their activities increasingly, and eventually completely, dismissed an image’s history and its essential identifying information
…
What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of art and to remove it – or, rather, to remove its images which they reproduce – from any preserve. For the first time ever, images of art [and now, also documentary images that epitomizes our cultures] have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way as language surrounds us. They have entered the mainstream of life over which they longer, in themselves, have power. [John Berger, Ways of Seeing p 32]
…
Though what had been revealed during the rise in popularity of the IA website was that IAs were alarmingly unyielding to both the importance of the images themselves as well as to the collection’s symbolic value and, as such, were more interested in solidifying their own authorial claims on the selection and arrangement of images that were, in most cases, never theirs to begin with.
The Image’s Quest to Move Far and Fast
Excerpts and analysis at the Walker Art Centre Design Blog
Highlighted sections from DDDDoomed (w/ notes)
from Hyperjunk
Credit in the Straight WWW: “DDDDoomed”, Berger, and the Image Aggregator
from Keehnan Konyha’s 2thewalls
DDDDoomed, by R. Gerald Nelson
*This Publication forms Vol. I of VIII of a series entitled Img Ctrl -
Texts regarding the contemporary image world.
“They defined their collectomania as art. The art of what?They seemed to think that their art, in posting a barrage of truly luscious images on the Internet, involved “explaining[ing] in a new way the world unknown to you.” [Sziha Vertov, quoted in John Berger, Ways of Seeing]. The problem is that the luscious images were just that, and nothing else, just pretty pixels. No content, contextual indicators, knowledge or anyting of real intelligible value could be gleaned …They would have effortlessly clocked their little “like” and “reblog” buttons in response to some anonymous, reactionary IA Supporter on his Tumblr blog, of some skinny. half-naked, tousled-haired, Brooklyn-girl, shot Terry Richardson style…
…
What became Evident to many was hat IAs were capitalizing on aesthetically engaging qualities of imagery circulating online- their activities increasingly, and eventually completely, dismissed an image’s history and its essential identifying information
…
What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of art and to remove it – or, rather, to remove its images which they reproduce – from any preserve. For the first time ever, images of art [and now, also documentary images that epitomizes our cultures] have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way as language surrounds us. They have entered the mainstream of life over which they longer, in themselves, have power. [John Berger, Ways of Seeing p 32]
…
Though what had been revealed during the rise in popularity of the IA website was that IAs were alarmingly unyielding to both the importance of the images themselves as well as to the collection’s symbolic value and, as such, were more interested in solidifying their own authorial claims on the selection and arrangement of images that were, in most cases, never theirs to begin with.
The Image’s Quest to Move Far and Fast
Excerpts and analysis at the Walker Art Centre Design Blog
Highlighted sections from DDDDoomed (w/ notes)
from Hyperjunk
Credit in the Straight WWW: “DDDDoomed”, Berger, and the Image Aggregator
from Keehnan Konyha’s 2thewalls
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