Description
Within the Frame: Continuum of the Still Image
Moderated by: Dena Eber and Sue Gollifer
Humans have been making pictures since the earliest cave drawings dating to at least 45,000 years ago, and the content and methods of making them have progressed since. With each new technological advance (this includes analog), image makers add another tool to their kits that open up new ways to practice, to express ideas and to tell stories that range from literal to abstract. Digital technologies are the latest and perhaps one of the biggest additions to the workflow, and with it, we have expanded our continuum of image making possibilities. Indeed, digital methods have changed imagery more than any other tool in history.
In 2003, Christiane Paul wrote that, “The use of digital technologies in almost every arena of daily life has vastly increased during the past decade, leading to speculations that all forms of artistic media will eventually be absorbed into the digital medium, either through digitization or through the use of computers in a specific aspect of processing or production.” Not only has this come true, I would argue that digital processes have changed the still image in essential ways that force artists and viewers to question truth and reality.
This 10th SPARKS session welcomes the presentation of artworks and projects that represent the continuum of image making and that reveal the essential ways that digital tools have moved it forward. Thus, we are looking for artists, theorists, researchers and practitioners of any image making practice to present and talk about works that range from fully digital, to a hybrid of digital and traditional practice that illustrate the growth of image making since the onset of widely available digital tools. The work or aesthetics may be about the medium or they might simply tell a story or illustrate concepts.
We are interested in a range of approaches including those from the past and those from the bleeding edge, using out of the box or homespun tools. Still images of any kind are welcome as our ultimate goal is to not only establish how digital methods are essential to image making, but also to highlight and perhaps remind us that the single image is still powerful and still important now, more than ever.
Presenters and Speakers:
• When Words Fall Apart: Dissolution/Regeneration/Repetition – Brian Franklin & Ladan Bahmani
• Work Per Pixel – Mark J. Stock
• Analog, Appropriation, Digital – Repurposing of the Analog via the Pixel – Tom R. Chambers
• Syncre: Creating Meaning Through the Layering of Symbols – Aris Holmes
• Knowledge Visualization for Artistic Creation – Anna Ursyn
• The Fluidity of Imaging Today: Digital to Analog to Digital – Cynthia Beth Rubin
• Techspressionism – Colin Goldberg
https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2021-12-within-the-frame-continuum-of-the-still-image/