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research blog of artist John O'Shea

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Abandon_Normal_Devices

Abandon Normal Devices commissioned me to conduct an experiment at FACT this week, based on my “Message equals Medium” photographic archive of text messages.  The result was a subtle intervention into the Btween09 “bells and whistles” new-tech / social-media / business conference.

The idea was, that the work should stimulate discussion around the ‘human-face’ of technology and act as a trailblazer for September’s inaugural ANDfestival in Liverpool.

Inadvertently  :-) the work was actually interpreted as a REAL WORLD model for a NEW TECH business – uh-oh!  (see vid below…)

“Stopgaps of Imagery within a Digital Culture”

Peter Martin, photographer and undergraduate of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, invited me to share my perspective regarding the seemingly “disposable” nature of image-making in contemporary digital culture…

Sheffield
The interview was documented on video and presented as part of a multimedia installation within the exhibition “Quadruplex.”

Peter Martin:
“In this work I interview my former manager by whom I was employed as a camera salesman for a high street retailer. As we both have personal art practices relating to image-making, we open a discourse into how our time at the shop changed our approach to photography.”
(quoted from the catalogue text)

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