Post photography and urban skepticism
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Cowlard, D.
Pretty, Annabel
Pretty, Annabel
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2024-11-27
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Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation
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cities
architecture and art
digital media art
architectural representation
photography
architecture and art
digital media art
architectural representation
photography
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Cowlard, D. & Pretty, A.C., (2024, November 27). Post photography and urban skepticism [Paper presentation]. Panel Unreliable Spaces and Connections. David Cowlard and Annabel Pretty, 2024 AAANZ Pre-Conference On-line Event (50 Years Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 1974-2024) Past, Present, Possible Futures: Main Conference 4-6 December 2024, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6764
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Post-photographic representations of the cities we inhabit are increasingly exhibiting seamless shifts from the digital to the real, profoundly altering our understanding of time, space, and the urban landscape in ways previously unimaginable. The convergence of digital images, architectural renders, communication networks, and extensive data recording all serve to expand the possibilities for observing and understanding the urban world, allowing for a richer, more comprehensive, and polyphonic account of cities and their complex social dynamics.
However, these new conditions of image production and reception have also brought us to the point of significant contradiction, creating a paradox where we are both more reliant on and more accepting of the digital, even as it contributes to a growing fragmentation of perception. In response to the pervasive seamlessness of digital technologies, some artists have adopted a more sceptical and critical stance. They actively seek out and utilize the fissures, gaps, and glitches within these technologies, which can act to slow down the processes of acceptance and uncover the inherent contradictions, thereby revealing what Franco Berardi (2019) describes as the “inscribed possibilities” within the urban spaces we inhabit
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