An interest in the digital and glitches led me to read this journal article: (you should too, it's interesting)
www.e-flux.com/journal/in-defense-of-the-poor-image
"The poor image is a copy in motion."
"defies copyright"
Sharpness and resolution are to do with class, status and identity. In one of Woody Allen's films the protagonist is constantly out of focus.
"A ghost of an image"
"A worse lie"
"The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation."
"The emergence of poor images reminds one of a classic Third Cinema manifesto, For an Imperfect Cinema, by Juan García Espinosa, written in Cuba in the late 1960s.8 Espinosa argues for an imperfect cinema because, in his words, “perfect cinema—technically and artistically masterful—is almost always reactionary cinema.” The imperfect cinema is one that strives to overcome the divisions of labor within class society. It merges art with life and science, blurring the distinction between consumer and producer, audience and author. It insists upon its own imperfection, is popular but not consumerist, committed without becoming bureaucratic."
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www.e-flux.com/journal/in-defense-of-the-poor-image
"The poor image is a copy in motion."
"defies copyright"
Sharpness and resolution are to do with class, status and identity. In one of Woody Allen's films the protagonist is constantly out of focus.
"A ghost of an image"
"A worse lie"
"The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation."
"The emergence of poor images reminds one of a classic Third Cinema manifesto, For an Imperfect Cinema, by Juan García Espinosa, written in Cuba in the late 1960s.8 Espinosa argues for an imperfect cinema because, in his words, “perfect cinema—technically and artistically masterful—is almost always reactionary cinema.” The imperfect cinema is one that strives to overcome the divisions of labor within class society. It merges art with life and science, blurring the distinction between consumer and producer, audience and author. It insists upon its own imperfection, is popular but not consumerist, committed without becoming bureaucratic."
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