CIEL VARIABLE 80 - Image Banks
EDITORIAL - Visual Literacy
By Jacques Doyon
The image bank is an archive structured by selection, indexing, and thematic cross-referencing procedures that determine how it is used. Artists appropriate this mechanism to explore the issues in visual culture and the contemporary future of the “virtual museum” prefigured by Malraux.
PORTFOLIO - Peter Piller, Bombs and Hunts
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The Archive Peter Piller contains tens of thousands of press images that Piller started to collect while employed at an advertising agency. The numbing task of endlessly scanning publications day in and day out became engaging when Piller started to clip and organize images from the newspapers.
Remembering, Repeating, and Reading Across the Surface of Things: Peter Piller’s Archive
A few years ago, while working at an ad agency’s clippings service, Peter Piller started taking images from the regional newspapers that he was given to survey and using them in his art, organizing the material into categories according to the themes suggested by the pictures’ content:
PORTFOLIO - George Legrady, Cell Tango et Pockets Full of Memories: Structure de l’archive virtuelle collective
George Legrady’s recent Cell Tango project consists of a dynamically growing archive of cell-phone images, associated with indexical terms. When exhibited as a wall projection, the artwork unfolds a galaxy of images and the textual structure of their interaction.
George Legrady’s Images in Transit
Since he began his photographic practice, George Legrady has been interested in the fate of images and their detachment from the “real,” first through strictly photographic methods, then, starting in the mid-1980s, through digital techniques.
PORTFOLIO - Luis Jacob, Album IV
Luis Jacob’s Album VI is the latest instalment in his ongoing series of archival projects.
In its entirety, this album contains 162 plates, each containing between two and six found images.
I.O.U. (Intersubjectivity, Optimism, Utopia): Reflections on Luis Jacob’s Image Archive
Over the course of the last few decades, the pressing issue of alterity – “Other” and “otherness” – has been admirably foregrounded in a number of disciplines and, with increasing frequency, in contemporary art practice and discourse.
From Image Bank to Morris/Trasov Archive
In 1967, Jack Chambers of London, Ontario, received a letter from the National Gallery of Canada informing him that its staff was beginning to assemble a bank of two thousand slides on Canadian art and asking for his permission to reproduce the image of one of his works.
The weight of photographic history: THE YVES BEAUREGARD COLLECTION
From September 25, 2008, to January 4, 2009, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) is presenting Quebec City and its Photographers, 1850–1908: The Yves Beauregard Collection,
39e Rencontres d’Arles, Christian Lacroix et ses invités : un regard anthropologique sur la photographie de mode
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
La semaine d’ouverture des 39es Rencontres d’Arles revêtait cette année un caractère exceptionnel. Le jour de l’inauguration, Maya Hoffmann, riche mécène et collectionneuse,
VOICES - Angela Grauerholz, about Work + Play, an Internet Project
By Jacques Doyon
Jacques Doyon : Over the course of a photographic practice spanning more than twenty years, you have shown consistent interest in the archival aspects of images and the architecture of their storage and display. You’ve also produced artist’s books and installations reflecting on museum practices.
