YOU SHALL BE SPAM
Developing visual methodologies that care for Image Waste & Digital Debris
It is well known that globally we produce a huge amount of physical garbage but the fact that we also generate an enormous quantity of digital image debris is discussed much less. Every day millions of photographic images are produced, shared, ignored, discarded, and forgotten.
Many of these images — along with their embedded metadata — end up in the cloud, where image optimisation scripts and algorithms create even greater number of copies, cropping and processing information such as faces, buildings and addresses through machine learning. All this hidden data synchronises and bounces between devices and servers across unknown geographies, accumulating increasingly more detailed patterns of human behaviour.
You Shall Be Spam✶
is a semester-long project with third-year graphic design students from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. They developed novel methods, formats, narratives, and an exhibition by researching, re-using, and transforming their own image waste and digital debris into critical reflections. You shall be Spam is an initiative of IMD and Image class guided by tutors Hannes Bernard and Katrin Korfmann, who are members of the KABK Design and the Deep Future research group.
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Exhibition: June 29 & 30, 2021
Maakhaven Calandkade 157 2521 AZ Den Haag
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Exhibition title borrowed from Hito Steyerl's essay Digital Debris.
The Face of Protest
The Face of Protest
Agnar Stefánsson
ImageReprocessing SystemsImage ArchivePost-Photography
Into the Pile
Into the Pile
Charlotte van Alfen
Image HoardingImagePhotographyDigital Image debrisImage Archive
Interment Of Nowhere To Be Found
Interment Of Nowhere To Be Found
Emir Karyo Yoaf & Jan Wojda
HauntologyImage ArchiveReprocessing Systems
Bluebird's Eye-view
Bluebird's Eye-view
Eunseo Hyun
ImageWasteDigital Image debrisImage HoardingImage Archive
Socio-political Change of Taste
Socio-political Change of Taste
Jonas Mindaugas Paberzis
Reprocessing SystemsDigital Image debrisMeta-DataKitsch
24/7 Birchwood Crackling Fireplace For Your Home
24/7 Birchwood Crackling Fireplace For Your Home
Jules Janssen
Digital WastePost-PhotographyKitschHauntology
You’re moving electrons instead of moving atoms [physically]
You’re moving electrons instead of moving atoms [physically]
Katla Taylor
WasteDigital Waste
Cybernetic Junk Cake
Cybernetic Junk Cake
Matteo Pellegrini
e-wasteDigital Image debrisPost-PhotographyReprocessing SystemsImageWaste
All I See is a Sixpack
All I See is a Sixpack
Ola Rubik
Re-useDigital Image debrisPost-PhotographyImage ArchiveImage
My subconscious according to Facebook
My subconscious according to Facebook
Paolo Vigliotti
Reprocessing SystemsPost-PhotographyDigital Image debrisDigital WasteImage HoardingImage ArchiveRe-use
Self_Actualization_A_Process_Of_Making_Real_Or_Giving_The_Apperance_Of_Reality
Self_Actualization_A_Process_Of_Making_Real_Or_Giving_The_Apperance_Of_Reality
Paulina Trzeciak
Post-PhotographyImage HoardingMateriality of Image dataImage
What I Get Targeted On In a Day
What I Get Targeted On In a Day
Sofia Nikolaeva
Image ArchiveReprocessing Systems
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