“Join us for a discussion between Robert Jackson, Ben Alper, Ross Mantle and Edith Fikes about the creation of Proof, published by Sleeper Studio last fall. The book presents proof photographs from Jackson’s collection alongside fictional responses by Fikes. Collectively, the images and texts explore the negotiation of the photographic act itself, the performance of identityContinue reading “Panel Discussion: The Making of a Photo Book”
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Reading Group—31 August 2021
Participants: KA, ZW, SC, NR, EP Consensus that this was not a particularly coherent article Is the renewed recognition of mutability a quantitative or a qualitative difference from what came before? What is a non-redundant image? (Flusser? Are we a function of the apparatus?) Meaning is never fixed? What is it all for? How areContinue reading “Reading Group—31 August 2021”
Reflection point: Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse
I took the time to find a copy of “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (Hall, 1973) and read it through to make sure that I had adequately understood the author’s concepts and how he had arrived at them. Stephen Bull (2010: 70) places his reference to Hall’s work within the context of aContinue reading “Reflection point: Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse”
The Self and the Other 