Our interaction with media technologies poses something of a paradox; in search for relevant visual information, we are happy to trust the illusions constructed by imaging technologies. Photomedia is often considered a self-evident element of the human lifeworld, but the technological conception of images is susceptible to remain black-boxed. With artworks that challenge the latent anthropocentric underpinnings of images, the project strives to unfurl cultural techniques and pictorial operations underlying the spell of images. Taking the spectator's eyewitness experience as a starting point, we set out to understand the repercussions that images may have in orienting the human sensorium and in underpinning our worldview. By creating experimental settings that grant the spectator an access to the process of imaging, this Uniarts' research project will develop an artist-led, empiric approach for studying the cultural regimes and fictional spaces generated by imaging technologies.

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