More Composite Photos

This video is a montage of the images with their digital “originals.” I think the video helps defetishize the images, that is it makes the compositing processes a little more palpable. Changing the level of detail changes the sharpness of the color transitions. The processes involved in perception traversing these gradients is what I have [...]

The End-Start of Film Theory

Media ecologies emerged in film theory as a critique of the technology, apparatus, aura, and circulation of the star. The present absence which reminds us of the hold, or the form of capture, which the photograph is: a present absence. I suppose what we might begin to understand is that the star was a proleptic [...]