Everything That Shines Sees: Flash Light, Photography and the Acheiropoietic.

Dominique Somers

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This exposition takes a close look at the concepts of self-origination and mediation for a better understanding of the photographic image engendered by a flash of light and its natural radiation. Starting from my own artistic experiments with fulguric and cosmic rays, performed in cooperation with a lightning simulation lab in Oxfordshire (UK) and with the nuclear research centre CERN in Geneva (Switzerland), it puts forward a speculative approach that looks beyond static and traditional assumptions about what it entails to 'be photographic'. Through the exploration of the creative role fulfilled by a sudden burst of light across different time periods and different manifestations (fulgurites, imprints, photograms, sound), focus is laid on the part the acheiropoieton can play in this revitalized apprehension of the photograph as a technical image and of the agencies involved in its mediation. The research projects discussed thus aim to foreground the involvement of nonhuman contributors in the formation of contemporary images and their epistemology as a possible way to re-think perception in a time increasingly shaped by a reliance on (artificially induced) visibility.

type	research exposition
keywords	PHOTOGRAPHY, artistic research, light, media archeology, media theory
date	27/10/2020
published	27/10/2020
last modified	27/10/2020
status	published
affiliation	University Ghent / Doctoral School of Arts Ghent
copyright	Dominique Somers
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/718461/718462
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.718461
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	21. 21

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