Listen "J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Danielle Ezzo"
Episode Synopsis
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 curatorNon-linear lookingIntuitive response led by the aesthetics of formal qualitiesFreeing artifacts of origins Subjectivity of documentationCategorization mattersLossinessLetting go of presuppositions (aka prescribed notions)Sensibilities changeHow images circulate nowSky as inspiration and analogous to virtual spaceReimagining artistic communitiesNFT’sEconomics of being an artistSynthetic images Museums' role as cultural arbitersCultural lagNumber Theory
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