Time and postphotography

A practice-led research on duration

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/2i.3434

Keywords:

Duration, Post Photography, Practice-led Research, Time, Duregraph

Abstract

This article presents a practice-led research project that asks how experienced time can be perceived through manipulated photographic images. The investigation is carried out by a series of digital images whose content is renegotiated over time, while the subject of the photograph remains within the frame. The artwork evidences an unstable space between a photographic composition and a moving image employed to question the power conventions in visualization and to expand the way we can conceive of time as duration in digital photographic images. It contributes to the discourse about practice-led oriented methodologies in the field of practice as a form of research through a comment on the design practice.

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Author Biographies

David van Vliet, Auckland University of Technology

David van Vliet is a lecturer in Communication Design at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), where he also completed a Master's in Design with the project entitled Duregraph. This practice-led study explored how experienced time can be articulated through manipulated photographic images. His research is related to the potential of emerging technologies and how it can change the way we treat images in photography and design.

Marcos Steagall, Auckland University of Technology

Marcos Mortensen Steagall is a senior lecturer and Programme Leader of the Communication Design course from the Auckland University of Technology - AUT, based at their South Campus. He holds a Master (2000) and PhD (2006) in Communication and Semiotics acquired in The Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in Art and Designed granted by Auckland University of Technology in 2019. His research interests are connected to visual semiotics; practice-oriented research methodologies in Art, Design and Technology; Lens-based image-making and indigenous epistemologies.

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Published

2021-12-31

How to Cite

van Vliet, D., & Mortensen Steagall, M. (2021). Time and postphotography: A practice-led research on duration. Journal 2i: Identity and Intermediality Studies, 3(4), 49–60. https://doi.org/10.21814/2i.3434