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PUBlicIMAGenING
Submitted by zB on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 09:24project PUBlicIMAGenING deals with re-factoring of surveillance video systems from its current surveillance and anti/counter critique to an observation and commons oriented setup. Research is set out to articulate and investigate processes of (hegemonic) image acquisition done through video surveillance (through it's technical design, aesthetics and economic/power relations). It is set to do so in order to meet the urgent need for setup of systemic observation installations in public spaces (with openly accessible images), benefiting general public (empowering activists, academics, urbanists, researchers, designers, artists, performers and all sorts of enthusiasts of urban living discoveries...)
The project will aim to establish a discourse of a proactive engagement also through designing a prototype media system for the collective production of observation images of public space (over a long time periods), producing visual material that would support different perception modes (focused on subtle environmental changes).
Promoting and engaging with this discourse in public space (with posters and installations) and in an academic environment (publications, events).
Production aspects of the project (dependant on external support) are set to experiment with slow-cam setups and development of a website that would document/support project development and tools as CompilingMovies as integrated visual media.
Image Map diagram +
Submitted by Kim de Groot on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 08:12
This image shows two parts of my research, one is the diagrams through which I visualize a particular image transformation. Below the diagram is my visual research, including a speculation on how this image evolution of disintegration into modules can continue.
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Case study: Image Map
Submitted by Kim de Groot on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 07:48
Startingpoint for the Image Map research is the Add note feature of photo-sharing application Flickr and image recognition software. The remarkable transformation going on here is the introduction of the image metadata as a visual layer on top of the original digital image, a painting in this case. The image with notes turns into a kind of map, a diagrammatic collection of notes linked to the image; an abstract image. A map of comments but at the same time a map of relations between people, images and camera’s. They map out the network of this particular image, they are organograms, visualizing the organization of the internal image architecture of data as well as social relations of Flickr users through images which the image as data repository is collecting. Both the original data + metadata are in fact in one interface: the image itself.
This introduces an interesting transformation of the relation between figure and medium. The figure interfaces the transformation of image body when content is added to it with the Add note feature. Figure and medium are not in an antagonistic relation, they become one. The image or photograph is not about its figurative representation, it is a representation of the image body and the way it is being produced. Visually, figure and medium merge and transform into an abstract image; the diagrammatic collection of notes linked to the image, an Image map.
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indexing & monitoring image
Submitted by Kim de Groot on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 08:49
One of my conclusions is that images are no longer created to represent a reality but to manage it. The image existence as data, being described by metadata, makes it readable and therefore manageable by the network. The visual and infrastructural meet on the meta(data) level of files and applications. Within this meta(data) context the image’ utilities and profits are measured and further developed; how useful is it?
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