‘Towards A History, A Politics, A Philosophy Of The Online Image’ is a research project initiated in December 2011. Does the online image have the potential to disrupt established notions of visual culture and artistic practice in profound ways? Beyond undoing photography’s prior relationship to the real, indexicality, or materiality the online image defines itself on new terms — through its flexibility and pathways of circulation and distribution more than its act of creation or production. How are artists and theorists negotiating these new meanings and implications of the photograph inside network culture? How can we make sense of the online image’s new forms of hybridity, modes of authorship, economies of attention, and conditions of sociality?
This inquiry exists as a series of encounters hosted by various institutions internationally, and will include teaching, curating, public events, residencies, publishing and other outcomes along the way, including:
001: Conversation with artist David Horvitz published in Foam Magazine’s What’s Next Issue, December 2012, Amsterdam
002: Workshop ‘Towards A History, A Politics, A Philosophy Of The Online Image’ at the art school Konstfack, April 2012, Stockholm
