Black Box in Cyan

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About

Our technologies are becoming ever more ubiquitous and universal. Technology now composes our lives. At the same time, in a sense we become more separated from these technologies due to a lack of understanding of the hardware and software of which they are made. This project explores the black boxing of technology through the lens of science and technology studies along with media archaeology. These ideas form the conceptual framework behind iPhotograms, a series of cyanotype photograms examining the black box of an iPhone 5. In this project, a modern camera, the iPhone, was disassembled, dissected, and documented using one of the oldest photographic processes.

Role

I developed this research-creation project from conception to execution. I dissected the iPhone 5, created the resulting cyanotypes, and I wrote a short academic paper about the project and underlying theory.

Read More

Reese Muntean and Kate Hennessy. 2018. iPhotograms: An Exploration of Technology Through Cyanotype. In the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Electronic Arts. 357 -360.

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