'Photography and its Condition as Technological Prosthesis' ('Expanded Photographies: Technology, Perception, Representation' Conference, Southampton Solent University, October 2012.)

    Activity: Invited talk or paper presentation › Invited talk (e.g. Keynote or guest speaker)

    Description

    The unfolding of humanity has been interconnected to the presence of technology. However, in modernity’s profound doubt over the body’s relationship to reality, technology’ s role as supplement altered human experience. Photography, in its moment of guaranteeing a fixed, ‘objective’ mechanical guarantor for memory and vision, fundamentally shifted their very nature. Photography’s mechanical prostheticisation of the human body also brings into focus the relationship between vision and power. However, for Martin Heidegger, art must ‘confront’ its own effects of representation despite its own condition as techné.
    PeriodOct 2012
    Held atSolent University, United Kingdom