Hito Steyerl discusses poor images in a few ways that motivated my project idea. She discusses a loss of presence and the distance from reality from images. Her words, “The poor image is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an itinerant image distributed for free,” stuck with me. Images and photography have drastically improved, and with the uprising of artificial intelligence, sometimes you have to question whether an image is actually real or not. Calling the image a “ghost” emphasizes that it lacks physical, real presence. What can appear on a screen is not the thing or the experience itself; a photo can remind you of an experience or perhaps help you envision it, but there is no real inherent nature you can experience from a photo or video. Steyerl also shows that screens change how we experience things. “They lose matter and gain speed” is a quote that stuck with me. I found this phrase powerful through the wording “loosing matter,” which suggests the loss of physica...
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