J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Danielle Ezzo
Description
Danielle Ezzo is a new media artist pioneering the lossy space of photography through a process of sourcing from the vast digitized open-access archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This beguiling book animates McLuhan's semiotic principle, the medium is the message, by activating the ability of photography to simultaneously communicate and mediate. Ezzo’s rephotographed art objects unleash an open-ended exploration into how history is shaped and its potential to propagate the future.
In this conversation, Danielle discusses, among other things:
Viewer as curator
Non-linear looking
Intuitive response led by the aesthetics of formal qualities
Freeing artifacts of origins
Subjectivity of documentation
Categorization matters
Lossiness
Letting go of presuppositions (aka prescribed notions)
Sensibilities change
How images circulate now
Sky as inspiration and analogous to virtual space
Reimagining artistic communities
NFT’s
Economics of being an artist
Synthetic images
Museums' role as cultural arbiters
Cultural lag
Number Theory
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