Figuratively Articulated Argument
„Digital image is not traditional. The material track isn´t recorded on a medium like in painting when a paint is applied on a canvass or when an image is recorded on a sensitive to light layer of a negative in analogue photography. A digital image can be partly or even completely deficient of this material track. It creates a sequence of abstract values. The sequence of abstract values is independent of its medium, pictured reality and the presence of the imaged object. The image in a digital form is randomly changeable. Without subsequent losses caused by transmission or manipulation. In processing of such image appears, in the words of Timothy Binkley „freedom of endless forgiveness“. It means that all changes can be retracted without consequences to the definitive result.“
- Bára Mrázková: "Figuratively Articulated Argument"00:00:03.412
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- The show is called "Figuratively Articulated Argument"00:00:17.307
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- and it focuses on digital photography00:00:20.894
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- as a response to the recent boom of analog photography.00:00:25.564
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- So I thought I would prepare an exhibition about the digital manipulation00:00:29.724
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- or, more generally, about the manipulation of photographic images.00:00:33.906
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- There is an awareness of the manipulation.00:00:38.274
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- It becomes clear at first sight whether the image is manipulated or not.00:00:41.053
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- On one photograph, a flower has been erased.00:00:44.405
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- This erasure is clearly perceptible as if there was a ghost in the picture.00:00:47.792
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- The manipulation can only deal with colors and nothing else.00:00:54.183
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- What I'm interested in is that digital photographs,00:01:00.738
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- unlike analog photography, lack the materiality00:01:03.123
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- and are not so much related to reality.00:01:07.277
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- It is a sequence of a abstract values which lacks00:01:12.493
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- the original material point of reference, it's an abstraction.00:01:19.853
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- The photograph now becomes what it's always wanted to be - an image.00:01:22.992
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- It does not represent external reality but becomes an image.00:01:33.311
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- That's what it's always desired and fought over it00:01:39.085
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- with painting and so on, the history is full of it.00:01:42.874
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- These are genre photographs including still life, landscape,00:01:47.560
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- self-portrait but only with an armchair, the figure has disappeared.00:01:53.227
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- And then there is the picture with the wall.00:01:59.336
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- It is digital in the sense that it is freed from reality,00:02:01.493
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- captured in the binary material that you can manipulate any way you want.00:02:07.582
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- This picture is a photograph taken of a photograph00:02:12.487
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- but there is no computer manipulation.00:02:21.623