Co-Evolution of Photography and Technology

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Call me lazy, but I asked ChatGPT to write an essay on how, from the beginning, photography has been totally intertwined with technology. in fact, both developed each other, and now we are facing the next generation of AI imaging tools. I prompted to include discussion of Vilém Flusser‘s work, and in particular his definition of ‘apparatus’. Here is what …

Glitches – Because You Can

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Been playing with Glitch Art. That’s when you take a digital image file, mess with the code, and get unexpected results. The header is from a series I did around 2006, using the Morris Minor in the Flickr Manipulation group. At that time I used software called Repligator, and still have it on the Windows partition of my Mac. Today, …