I ran across the word "infography" recently. It's not really a beautiful
word, but it seems to me to work well for digital media, digital moving
image sequences. It acknowledges a technological change, photography>
cinematography> infography. It also reveals an essential aspect of the
nature of this new medium, a medium that doesn't necessarily refer directly
to the concrete, as film did, but to information regarding the concrete,
ie, when you work with digital images you don't really work with images,
but with mathmatical descriptions. This is a little fuzzy but I think it's
an interesting point to be worked out. When working with digital media
there's a layer of interpretation/abstraction that exists between the
artist and subject, a layer of code, 0's and 1's. Has anyone thought about
that?
Mark O'Connell
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