The document appears to be a summary of tweets and discussions from the #RedeyeNetwork event on November 26, 2013 in Manchester, UK. It includes tweets on topics like what it means to be a 21st century photographer, rethinking photoeducation, developing new partnerships and collaborations, the role of the curator, archiving images online, and challenges around scale and visibility in social media. Speakers at the event like Jonathan Shaw shared their presentations and perspectives on emerging issues and opportunities in photography.
30. “
In fact, the more engaging social media
becomes, the less scale it delivers. Think
about it. We all know that social media is
essentially conversational and
personalised. But conversations only
work with a small group of people: the
more people you add to a conversation
(the more scale you add to it), the less
effective it becomes.
Richard Stacy
...Why social media is a dangerous concept
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31. Going back to the drawing board
...and work out what you want to say!
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32. Revisited
The traditional reading list... most visited post in the class...(Friends of Phonar Book List)
The ‘Reading List’ is now the
#DigHum13
37. 1.
It’s like a brand new media object. It’s a media experience.
2.
That’s a hot topic how people feel about the concept of being a curator.
3.
I’m not even sure if we should be calling it photography anymore, since the great majority of it isn’t technically photography at all. They’re just
images.
4.
I always think about an audience engagement component.
5.
So language is actually still a significant constraint.
6.
One thing that has happened within the creative industries in the twenty-first century, has been an aging of creative industries and their workforces.
7.
I think the first stage of emancipation is to abandon hope that the situation is any less challenging or in need of radical change than it really is.
Across the world, creative people in the fields of photography, curation, activism, writing, filmmaking, know that the money is spent.
8.
I have also been interested in creating structures for iterative processes, because we are at a time that is not definitive in a conventional sense - it is in flux.
9.
I don’t think a photographer needs to be a curator at heart, but I think a photographer doesn’t need to understand the curatorial mode of their
practice for sure.
10. The artists who I think will define this moment, who do define this moment for other artists are actually invisible to most cultural institutions.
11. Understand the digital not as a set of technological developments, but an entirely new conceptual landscape.
12. I do think the production of photographic icons is something that is undertaken by the photographic community, rather than actually the wider public, or
even media community generally.
13. The lament for a front page is something that always occurs within the context of an anxiety about abundance. I think this anxiety is way overstated.
14. So here the important thing is a distinction between potential and actuality.
15. We moved to the idea of visual storytelling as kind of a rubric. Because we wanted to locate things into that much larger space and zone.
16. I use the image in a way in which to open up questions of provenance really, because really once a photograph is on a screen is it video, is it animation?
17. Photography is about a computational object.
18. I'm sure methods for us to disappear will become more prevalent and valued over time. But for an artist, visibility is significant.
19. “Actually, your value is integrity. The point is that you’re credible and people believe you. That’s what people will pay for; not the images.”
20. What I love is the degree of visual literacy that we now live with.
21. “What happens to all these pictures? How do we archive them?” My question was, “Why?” Why would you archive them?
22. I think we do live with this slightly specious belief that there is such a thing as an important image and such a thing as an unimportant image.
23. Video is now assuming the role of a factual vehicle. “This is what it looked like; this is what happened; this is who was there.” The picture, the
still photograph becomes very much more about the idea of.
24. I think the limiting resource at this point is imagination.
From the book...
What do we think?
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