Visual Culture and the Forensic bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden of art and photography, the artifice of crime imaging, the visual traces of data, and the ontology of data and objects.

• Angela Strassheim’s Evidence


• Melanie Pullen’s Crime Scenes, Hugo’s Camera


• The death of Alan Kurdi and Ai WeiWei’s restaging of the scene


• Kathryn Smith’s Incident Room: Jacoba ‘Bubbles’ Shroeder, 1949-2012


• Luc Delahaye


• Horace Vernet


• Trevor Paglen’s Autonomy Cube


• Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour


• Julian Charrière’s Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013


• Simon Norkfolk’s When I am Laid in Earth


• Cory Arcangel’s Data Diaries, 2003


• My interview with Eyal Weizmann and Matthew Keenan on Forensic Aesthetics and the practice of Forensic Architecture


• Josef Mengele’s bones used in forensic identification


• Forensic Architecture‘s investigations


• My interview with Toby Green and Thomas Fazi on The Covid Consensus.

David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.

Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics

David Houston Jones

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