Digital Memory and the Archive by Wolfgang Ernst

Author:Wolfgang Ernst
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4529-3395-5
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

But, at the other end of this expulsion, the body reenters. While interrogating the materiality of the pixel, the media artist Menn decides to produce each pixel manually with his own body: “I work with my body in front of a digital camera; my appearance in the visual field equals ‘one,’ my disappearance equals ‘zero.’ I am being scanned by the camera.”70 From a distance, the writing, performed by pixels based on images of his body, reads: “I only want to work digitally.”

What looks like an image on the computer monitor is nothing but a specific actualization of data (imaging). The computer thus renders data visible in a time-based way; the static notion of the image is being replaced by a dynamic one. As Claudia Reiche writes:

This variability marks a fundamental chance of imagery As opposed to classical image media like photography and film in the case of the computer-generated image the visual recording is not fixed invariably on a physical carrier, the negative, but always “fluid.”…At any point of time digitally stored “images” can be manipulated, thus making the notion of the “original” state redundant.71

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