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Categories: Photography
Keywords: Consumer Culture | Feminism | Body | Perception
Relevant passages:
Jens Schröter «Archive—post/photographic»
Check as well:
Michael Brodsky
«Transmission Interrupted»
Michael Brodsky, «Transmission Interrupted,» grid of 16 color photographs, 1995.
from: Hubertus von Amelunxen; Stefan Iglhaut; Florian Rötzer (eds.), Fotografie nach der Fotografie, Dresden a.o., 1996.
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Brodsky created the images for «Transmission Interrupted» (initiated in 1991) by downloading the GIF-format pictures from the online bulletin board of a pornography site. He altered the protocol for the standard transmission, causing a desynchronization in which the images were dissolved in part. Interestingly enough – even though as a ‹censor› the operating, disturbance barriers conceal large portions of the imagery – every viewer immediately knows that this concerns pornographic images. So the work simultaneously poses questions regarding information content and the redundancy of images, questions centrally relevant to developing data compression processes. Through the reflexive reference to transmission and redundancy, the work consequently explores as its theme the central parameter of the post-photographic picture archive in the Internet – emphasized, in turn, by appealing to the ordering principle of the grid. (cf. Hubertus von Amelunxen; Stefan Iglhaut; Florian Rötzer (eds.), Fotografie nach der Fotografie, Dresden a.o., 1996, pp. 140-143).
