J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Danielle Ezzo
“This book takes place in the fluid distance between the writer and her subject”
Episode #70 , Summary
If Not Here, Then Where? presents a re-narration of public access artifacts, untethered from their original cultural constructs — offering a prismatic view of authorship and representation.
Episode Notes:
Danielle Ezzo is a new media artist, pioneering the lossy space of photography by utilizing digitized artifacts sourced from the open-access archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this beguiling book Ezzo animates the ability of photography to simultaneously communicate and mediate — opening an exploration into the medium and the messaging. Her extensive sleuthing raised questions and unearthed insights into how history is shaped and its potential power to propagate into the future.
In this conversation Danielle discusses, among other things:
Viewer as curator
Non-linear looking
Intuitive response led by formal qualities
Subjectivity of documentation
Categorization matters
Lossiness
How images circulate now
Sky as analogous to virtual space
Reimagining artistic communities
NFT’s
Synthetic images
Museums' as cultural arbiters
Cultural lag
Number Theory
Referenced in the episode:
Future Objects At Plexus Projects
Autobiography of Carson McCullers
The Synthetic Eye Fred Ritchin
Bending the Frame Fred Ritchin
Art in the After Culture: Capital Crisis & Cultural Strategy by Ben Davis
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
World Transhumanist Association
In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl