For the new project 'Exhibition in the City' or 'Digital is about forgetting, analog is for remembering' I want to explore the concept of time, things that go unnoticed and how technology as come forward. I will start by investigating the technology side, find originals of inventions and document how they have progressed; an old Nokia mobile compared to a smartphone. This will be photographed in a forensic sort of way, to accentuate the stark gap between the two's capabilities.
I also want to use this as a starting point of exploring time; what is memory? What defines a memory that's worth holding onto? And for that matter what makes a memory so terrible we just want to forget it? For this I could take completely random pictures and then heavily thought of ones, and see what the outcomes are. I also want to investigate the biological side of the memory and see if I can find any leads for a project in that.
My final idea so far is exploring moments in time that are forgotten, but which should be remembered, or those that don't mean anything but there's no reason for them not to be important; asking the question what makes this moment fleeting and not taking note of. I am thinking of watching films on the internet and either waiting until it pauses to buffer to take a picture, or just taking pictures of frames I find interesting.
There are a few photographers and artists I have found already, Mitra Tabrizian; who works with film and photography, street photographers like Caspaar Claasan, Rob Hornstra and J.R. Hughto who also works with film.
Through these ways I hope to explore the premise of memory, time, technological and human progression.
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