Description
Organised by the Painting Research Group at Belfast School of Art, and sponsored throughStrategic Support funding provided by the Research Institute at Belfast School of Art, Ulster
University. This overall project was part of REF21 Environment Statement.
This symposium was hosted at The MAC and accompanied an exhibition of the same name at
PS2 Project Space in Belfast. I created a new body of work especially for this exhibition, and
served as the keynote speaker at the symposium.
The work I produced for this exhibition was included in the book "Visual Culture", by Alexis L.
Boylan, MIT Press (Essential Knowledge Series), pub. August 11, 2020
Abstract:
In this paper, I examined the epistemic authority and ontology of the photographic image in the
digital realm discussing its dissemination through mechanisms of surveillance capitalism
including social media, targeted advertising, and the news media. I began with an examination of
the difference between analogue and digital images, a divide between the Barthesian concept of
“this-has-been” and the simulacra, while reflecting on the rise of AI in the creation of the images
we “see” today, what Trevor Paglen has referred to as “invisible images”. This category includes
images made by machines for an audience of other machines for the purposes of mediation,
activation, operations, enforcement, and lastly representation. I went on to consider how this
paradigmatic shift has changed the role of the artist as consumer and producer of images by
exploring how photography remediated through other means such as painting can expose latent
and new meaning.
| Period | 25 Sept 2019 |
|---|---|
| Event title | How The Image Echoes Symposium |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Belfast, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |