A project by Mark Selby.
Photographs can act as powerful mnemonic representations of our personal memories, indicative of time, place and experience. However as digital photographic technologies strive for ease, convenience and instantaneity, photographs are mass–produced. The camera democratizes experience, recording differing experiences in identical ways. Often not valued as memories, photographs become mundane representations of unremarkable and unfamiliar events whose mnemonic value is increasingly diluted.
Photographic Memories is an ongoing project that intends to make photography an integral component of experience. Like the map, or the ticket, the camera becomes necessary to the journey. Here photography encourages the experience of travel, capturing it in ways more appropriate to the activity.
Oct 19
Running with the idea that craft and care increase the value of images I decided to make the quality of the viewed image sensitive to environmental conditions.
This sketch was made to think about how the viewer (a handheld TV) could be hacked with sensors that would allow the quality of the image to change dependant on time, room temperature and lighting conditions.
The intention was to find out the extent to which people would be willing to alter their living conditions in order to see the photograph clearly.
