Open Access"A Place Colled Lovely1)"
Author(s) -
Arron Santry
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
networking knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1755-9944
DOI - 10.31165/nk.2020.131.593
Subject(s) - queer , upload , context (archaeology) , materialism , hegemony , resistance (ecology) , aesthetics , value (mathematics) , art , sociology , computer science , visual arts , history , world wide web , political science , gender studies , law , epistemology , philosophy , archaeology , politics , ecology , machine learning , biology
The digitisation and networked distribution of the PixelVision videos of Sadie Benning presents a challenge to aesthetico-protocological hegemonies that determine the value of digital videos. Subverting their status as ‘poor images’, the uploaded copies of Benning’s works restage their queer, counter-hegemonic resistance via the controls of a new digital context. This paper calls for a re-examination of traditional attitudes towards the digitisation of ‘analogue’ moving image artworks and proposes that compression standards and their artifacts may be recuperated as part of a queer feminist-materialist artistic strategy.