Extended learning: Solutions
From the curators:
“I encourage most people I know who are even a little bit interested in digital art to read Hito Steyerl or watch her films. She has written extensively on class associations projected onto and existing within images, and her essay In Defense of the Poor Image is a great intro to her work. She informs much of what I create and how I view the material conditions of digital media. I also wanted to give a massive recommendation to explore the work of the artist Julia Scher. I learned about Scher’s work during a lecture I attended held by Dr. Gloria Sutton, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Northeastern University. Upon seeing how Scher utilizes surveillance within her work, it spawned the early concepts for Solutions: Strategic Review Survey. I included an interesting interview with Scher from the Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT. And last but not least, I’d like to share a playlist I put together featuring some of my favorite songs and music videos about having a job, loving it, and being hopelessly devoted to the grind.” — Zak Gorsuch, co-curator of Solutions
In Defense of the Poor Image
The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard.
Image: Nine 35mm film frames from Stan Brakhage’s Existence is Song, 1987.
Surveillance, Seduction, and Subversion: The Art of Julia Scher
Image: Julia Scher, Security by Julia IX (SBJ IX), 1991. Exhibition view, Le Consortium, Dijon, 1991. Courtesy Julia Scher and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo © Julia Scher.
Solutions: Strategic Review Survey (a youtube playlist)
Take a deep dive into co-curator Zak Gorusch’s methodology.