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Digital Forensics
WELCOME TO THE BITCURATOR PROJECT.
The BitCurator Project is an effort to build, test, and analyze systems and software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the workflows of a variety of collecting institutions.
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Revisiting an Analogue Past?
After having an encounter on mlkshk.com over some Nick Cave ephemera, I decided to go digging though my old analog notebooks that date back to my years as a University student from the early ’80s to the ’90s. Boy are there some gems in there!A couple of things struck me about the process.
Throughout the books are polaroids, made in a time when while expensive, still infinite in terms of having another go. Now of course, this is all history, making these rediscovered polaroids all the more poignant. To add fuel to the fire some of these polaroid photographs are showing sings of chemical deterioration. A wonderful metaphor for life and time.
Be prepared for more scans of these images as I work my way through these books.
The lesson in all this? Keep an analogue AND a digital journal, my analogue journal entries dwindled considerably around 2004, and stopping altogether in early 2008 for nearly 2 years. Why? I’m not sure? Rest assured, I have gone back just this year, to keeping both.
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Where am I?
How did I get here?
As someone who has been formally trained in the processes of fine art photography, [mainly black & white] to the point where I make my own film and paper developers and run very tight calibration systems, I for many years did not like my own colour work and had little confidence in it.
After using a couple of smaller digital cameras including my phone cameras, I became more comfortable with my colour work, and now have moved away from b&w film altogether and concentrate my film energies purely in colour. None of this would have been possible without 1. digital, and 2. phone cameras.
These two processes allowed me to make cheap mistakes - often- and learn far more from them far quicker than I had in the entire 15 or so years of using b&w materials. It has however now gotten to the point where I hanker for the lo-fi aesthetic of those early cameras, to the point where I am trying to resurrect a precursor to my first digital camera.
As an aside, in my mind each approach now has a relatively defined place in my practice, digital is predominantly about screens and film, prints and books. I see them [iPhones and other lo-fi devices] as sketch making tools, & making sketches is an integral part of the process.
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Photographer in Adelaide
Gary is a friend in Adelaide he uses a variety of film and digital formats to make pictures, this is one of his blogs.
He is an excellent photographer, regardless of the format he uses.
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Want!!
(Source: store.polaroid.com)
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A new camera promises to change picture making, a novel idea, but 600 bucks worth I doubt it?
(Source: lytro.com)
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The Australia Council’s continued support for media art practice will be evident and on display in 2013, when ISEA returns to Australia after 21 years. ISEA 2013 will be hosted in Sydney, giving Australia the opportunity to once again showcase and celebrate the extraordinary contribution its artists and thinkers make to the world of media arts
I’m excited!
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...mostly; photographic ephemera; created or gathered, then tossed to the wind. [I always give credit for images used from elsewhere, contact me if you wish to have yours removed.]
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