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Fabien Charuau

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Research paper thumbnail of The Unfolding of the Networked Image: An Oscillation Between a Simple Visibility and an Invisible Complexity

Research paper thumbnail of The Contemporary Abundance of Photographs is an Opportunity for New Documentation

My projects take place mainly in small town India: places on the periphery of nearly everything, ... more My projects take place mainly in small town India: places on the periphery of nearly everything, but where I contend, most of our mainstream culture is shaped. Rediscovery of the Indian photography history and its subsequent archival is a hot topic in art circles. For me rediscovery and archiving of visual practices from the vernacular is just as important. Indian contemporary photography influences small town Indian photography and vice versa. The class divide never really stops the percolation of ideas through society.
The other preoccupation of my research is to make sense in this digital age, of the profusion of images generated every single second by humans and machines. This onslaught of visuals do petrify and terrify many, I just find it fascinating. I have found and identified pictures that survive and float on the top of this tsunami. They are mainly disconnected from their photographers and their places of origin; they exist because they have to. The auto-generation of images through the internet or modern visual technologies is fascinating and, for me, very spiritual.
I posit that visual machines have an inherent poetry, the sheer pressure of the statistics helps to reveal it.
2013

Research paper thumbnail of The Unfolding of the Networked Image: An Oscillation Between a Simple Visibility and an Invisible Complexity

Research paper thumbnail of The Contemporary Abundance of Photographs is an Opportunity for New Documentation

My projects take place mainly in small town India: places on the periphery of nearly everything, ... more My projects take place mainly in small town India: places on the periphery of nearly everything, but where I contend, most of our mainstream culture is shaped. Rediscovery of the Indian photography history and its subsequent archival is a hot topic in art circles. For me rediscovery and archiving of visual practices from the vernacular is just as important. Indian contemporary photography influences small town Indian photography and vice versa. The class divide never really stops the percolation of ideas through society.
The other preoccupation of my research is to make sense in this digital age, of the profusion of images generated every single second by humans and machines. This onslaught of visuals do petrify and terrify many, I just find it fascinating. I have found and identified pictures that survive and float on the top of this tsunami. They are mainly disconnected from their photographers and their places of origin; they exist because they have to. The auto-generation of images through the internet or modern visual technologies is fascinating and, for me, very spiritual.
I posit that visual machines have an inherent poetry, the sheer pressure of the statistics helps to reveal it.
2013

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