Research Projects
"Digital Networked Image" is a research project by Kim de Groot that deals with the inverted relation between image and reality. Reality is produced through the visual and organized in digital networks. Moving from representation to the performative, from the visual to the infrastructural, images are no longer created to represent a reality but to manage it. What kind of digital networked images are being produced today? Digital images are informational, they are both technical as well as cultural descriptive data objects. What are their production mechanisms? What politics is part of digital image design? Does the organizational role of images take over the significance of their visuality? Kim will be researching Imaginary Property as the condition of the production and distribution of the digital networked image. |
The research project "Just touch!" by Lilia Perez addresses the multitouch screen technology that is being promoted as a desirable innovation by the computer industry. A technology that mediates image consumption, and that will therefore affect the way in which images are produced. The multitouch screen technology is the product of redesigning and commercializing an old technology. It’s main metaphor being tactile; it lends itself to applications that comment on the sense of touch, and its culturally defined connotations. This includes the controlled, and technology mediated kind of touch that the touch screen itself encourages. JustTouch will explore the potential of the touchscreen as a tool for stretching and questioning, perhaps subverting such connotations. The outcome of this project will be a series of practical applications, and some theoretical writings that show a critical approach to the subject. |
Today the passage from "intellectual" to "imaginary" property is challenging traditional notions of ownership and personhood. It is the theft of the soul which in both, analog and digital modes, turns images into property or vice versa: property into imageness. The formula could go like this: the soul that is stolen in the image that is taken is the difference that is repeated. |
PUBlicIMAGenING is a research project by Zeljko Blace on visual mediation of and civic engagement with urban space. Its aims are set: to articulate proactive discourse in theoretical research and examine and test strategies of engagemnet with public in event series. Its production aspect is set in speculative design of open, participatory and distributed media sysyem prototyps that operate as tools for systemic visual observation of urban spaces and utilizing their visual outputs. |
Virtual Entity is a research project by Eleonora Oreggia starting from the assumption that the concepts of authenticity, ownership, uniqueness and seriality are no longer valid within the digital domain. In fact, there is no substantial difference between copy and original on the Web – and these two categories are not relevant. Since any file can generate an infinite number of entities identical to itself, there is no scarcity on the Net; any resource is indefinitely available. Assuming possession is related to the numerical proportion between resources (objects) and potential owners (subjects), then the concept of ownership and the idea of property become superfluous, whereas resources are unlimited. |
![Digital Networked Image](http://imaginaryproperty.com/files/ip/category_pictures/kdg.png ""Digital Networked Image" is a research project by Kim de Groot that deals with the inverted relation between image and reality. Reality is produced through the visual and organized in digital networks. Moving from representation to the performative, from the visual to the infrastructural, images are no longer created to represent a reality but to manage it. What kind of digital networked images are being produced today? Digital images are informational, they are both technical as well as cultural descriptive data objects. What are their production mechanisms? What politics is part of digital image design? Does the organizational role of images take over the significance of their visuality? Kim will be researching Imaginary Property as the condition of the production and distribution of the digital networked image.")
![Just Touch](http://imaginaryproperty.com/files/ip/category_pictures/lpr.png "The research project "Just touch!" by Lilia Perez addresses the multitouch screen technology that is being promoted as a desirable innovation by the computer industry. A technology that mediates image consumption, and that will therefore affect the way in which images are produced. The multitouch screen technology is the product of redesigning and commercializing an old technology. It’s main metaphor being tactile; it lends itself to applications that comment on the sense of touch, and its culturally defined connotations. This includes the controlled, and technology mediated kind of touch that the touch screen itself encourages. JustTouch will explore the potential of the touchscreen as a tool for stretching and questioning, perhaps subverting such connotations. The outcome of this project will be a series of practical applications, and some theoretical writings that show a critical approach to the subject.")
![Museum of the Stealing of Souls](http://imaginaryproperty.com/files/ip/category_pictures/fls.png "Today the passage from "intellectual" to "imaginary" property is challenging traditional notions of ownership and personhood. It is the theft of the soul which in both, analog and digital modes, turns images into property or vice versa: property into imageness. The formula could go like this: the soul that is stolen in the image that is taken is the difference that is repeated.")
