Giugno 2020

Federico Clavarino, artist

Medusa (working title) This is an ongoing research project, and one that just started, hence its rather chaotic structure. Broadly speaking, it is looking at the gesture of photography as embodied vision. It is about photography as an entanglement of subjects, objects and apparatuses as mutually defining entities. Its core is the specific subject-object gap opened by the gesture of machine-aided observation. It is about mechanisms of recognition and mis-recognition inaugurated b

Giugno 2020

Emanuele Trevi, writer

My project is my own home My project is very personal, since it is my own home. Here I experiment an on-going project inspired by Warburg’s Library and Mnemosyne BilderAtlas: I keep a well-thought-out collection of art catalogues and books, ethnological and history of religions texts and very many art reproductions (postcards) and maps. I began my home image’s display in 2013 when I moved into an apartment with wooden doors; on

Giugno 2020

Joachim Schmid, artist

Other People’s Photographs, 96 print-on-demand books, self-published, 2008-2011 Other People’s Photographs  is a series of 96 different books that explore patterns and themes in what amateur photographers are posting every day to sites such as Flickr. On which fields of knowledge are you focused? Visual culture. Could you identify some constants in your work? Pattern recognition. How did you find out about

Giugno 2020

Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, artists

Fax from the Library ; Japanese Lesson ; You and Me: three projects, consisting of several parts incl. books, videos, exhibitions, websites, glossaries etc. Fax from the Library (since 2013) Fax from the Library, two one-channel-videos, 2015 each 6:37 min; 16:9; full HDFrax from the Library, Projektraum Fotografie Dortmund, 2015 https://faxfromthelibrary.tumblr.com/ Time and Sequence is something we are very interested in when thinking about photography and images. Moving images frequently appear

Giugno 2020

Alessandro Calandra, photobook addicted

Alessandro Calandra As a photobbok addicted, web surfer and collector of beautiful spreads on his facebook account, Alessandro decided to answer just to our last question and to consider his facebook account as a project. As it is a link, we'll share also the books he suggested as links from different sources. Thinking about Warburg's 'good neighborhood rule', what are the books that underpin your project? Line–Gry Hørup, Results &am

Giugno 2020

Fabio Barile, photographer

Works for a cosmic feeling Works for a cosmic feeling is a collection of photographic works shot with a film large format camera that employing the tools of science and philosophy explores what Romain Rolland (in a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud) called “an oceanic feeling” - referring to the sensation of being at one with the universe. Whether observing the way in which the branches and leaves of a forest organize themselves, how a bi-dim