In 1967 Gottfried Jäger pioneered generative photography: images made entirely within the apparatus of the camera. They weren’t representational images, but abstract compositions of the system itself. Working collaboratively with Jäger, I directly transposed his light image into data images, using digital apparatus to derive multiple interconnected digital objects from Jäger’s original. I also make them contingent on the network. The act of viewing changes and complicates the artwork for everyone in real time. Also, depending on where an artwork is viewed from in the world, it will appear differently. Jäger’s concepts from the 1960s are extended for the network era. The works were shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, where images inside the museum could be influenced by anyone viewing from somewhere else.
Exhibition at MOMI