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The instability of the digital archive: How to deal with pixels by hand

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dc.creatorLarcher, Jonathan
dc.creatorLeyokki
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:25:10Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:25:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis essay presents the work of the Brèches artist collective and research questioning the ‘becoming-archive’ and the instability of vernacular digital images. With this investigation, the collective seeks a way to reverse the quality and hierarchy usually attributed to high and low resolution, and to reverse the established order between archives and family footage. Their practice deals with three types of images: photographic archives of the 19th century, digitised at a very high resolution; very low resolution images produced through entry-level DV cameras and first generation mobile phones; inflation of the latter through an algorithmic process inspired by GAME OF LIFE (Conway, 1970). The collective experiments with hand-crafted digital images, understood as a way of working with visual texture and materiality – rather than figures and mimicry – and as a way of editing a film frame by frame.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3443
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-instability-of-the-digital-archive-how-to-deal-with-pixels-by-hand/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4212
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectAlgorithmusde
dc.subjectAnthropologiede
dc.subjectKinode
dc.subjectZigeuner <Motiv>de
dc.subjectalgorithmen
dc.subjectanthropologyen
dc.subjectavant-garde cinemaen
dc.subjectdefective technologiesen
dc.subjectGypsiesen
dc.subjecthome moviesen
dc.subjectresolutionen
dc.subjectRomaen
dc.subjectRomani cinemaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleThe instability of the digital archive: How to deal with pixels by handen
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationLarcher, Jonathan; Leyokki (2018): The instability of the digital archive: How to deal with pixels by hand. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (1), 123–144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3443.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:14
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-instability-of-the-digital-archive-how-to-deal-with-pixels-by-hand/
local.source.epage144
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage123
local.source.volume7

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