*Reposting for Acquaintance* ******************************************************************************************************* MARTY MILLER Solo Exhibition | JCCAC [Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre] L0 Gallery IG @findingthefoundphoto
"Finding the Found Experience" highlights noticing what was already noticed. Always en route but never arriving, this work exposes an ongoing process of abstraction, care, and re-presentation at the heart of photo-taking in the algorithmic era. I pursued this project to look at the 'experience of looking' and to make photos reveal this condition.
What is truly found when finding? To answer this question, “Finding the Found Experience” highlights noticing what was already noticed. The work contains photobooks housing early digital photos that I found and re-presented. In step 1, an extensive database of lost digital pictures from Hong Kong was collected. In step 2, 500 photos were chosen to form 8 photobooks. In step 3, visitors to the previous exhibition took 1000 photos of these photobooks using antique digital cameras. In step 4, I chose 125 of their shots, showed them to workshop participants, and they photographed their favourites. Finally, in step 5, I remade the original photobooks (in step 2) using all these re-photographed photographs. For the photos which no one photographed, I abstracted them using predictivealgorithmic technology or left them untouched. Far from static, “Finding the Found” photos show the fluid nature of images and imaging. Each image speaks multiple truths in uncertain times when image-makers strive for the predictable, the already found. Always en route but never arriving, this work exposes an ongoing process of abstraction, care, and re-presentation at the heart of photo-taking in the algorithmic era. I pursued this project to look at the experience of looking and to make photos reveal this condition. Finding the found - experience, therefore, provokes an experience of noticing an archive existing beyond the image’s visible content. For the past ten years, Marty Miller has investigated that world through his artwork, photography, teaching, and academic research. Overall, his work looks at the act of looking. Yet, given recent technological advancements, he now investigates accurately curating image archives in daily life. Please see #findingthefoundphoto (IG) for project updates or martypic.com for past exhibitions. ******************************************************************************************************* Disclaimer - |
