Abstract
This paper rethinks the images produced in the common practice of screenshots. Screenshots are images that capture a part or the whole of the display on the screens. Mostly used for the purpose of documentation, computers and mobile phones are commonly used to take screenshots. Instead of merely displaying, the screens become image capturing devices. This indicates that screens play an active role in the operations of networked images. Analysing screenshot images from a photographic aesthetic is insufficient since screenshots is a practice where data and computational processes are entangled with the human action to capture an instance on and through the screens. The screen-operator assemblage produces a new kind of image-making practice which has to be understood as a move from the indexical to the technical and data processes in image-making. Such an understanding contributes toward how such images inform our computational contemporary visual culture. Furthermore, the paper is interested in the recognition of material objects such as the screens in the process of making images and aims go deeper into the technical processes that they facilitate. In the process of this examination, the paper offers insights into these new kinds of images.
Presenters
Charu MaithaniSessional Academic, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Screenshot, Computation, Visual Culture, Networked Image, Screens
