Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7 pm
Becoming Aliquid - Portraiture and the Internet
Lecture by Marc Ries
In the theory of photography the term “reproduction” always referred to the image itself, to the technological replay, duplication, and finally to the publishing of the recorded material. With the Internet a shift in the use of reproduction is happening–from the objects (information, opinions, infrastructures, images etc.) to “private” beings who reproduce themselves with their most intimate images and who duplicate themselves as anonymous actors within the architectures of the Internet. The lecture “Becoming Aliquid - Portraiture and the Internet” will discuss this shift on the basis of selected works from the exhibition “Public Images - Private Views”.