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Cristina Baldacci
Recirculation
The Wandering of Digital Images in Post-Internet Art
The text considers recirculation as a process through which both visual and cultural imagery are put in motion over and over again in the current information age, especially in the context of post-Internet art. Hito Steyerl’s writings and thoughts on the ‘poor image’, namely the low-resolution digital image bound to a perpetual wandering or ‘circulationism’, here serve as major reference points for the development of the argument.
Keywords: digital images; visual culture; post-Internet art; remediation; Hito Steyerl; Allan Sekula; recirculation
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Recirculation
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The Wandering of Digital Images in Post-Internet Art
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Cristina Baldacci
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The text considers recirculation as a process through which both visual and cultural imagery are put in motion over and over again in the current information age, especially in the context of post-Internet art. Hito Steyerl’s writings and thoughts on the ‘poor image’, namely the low-resolution digital image bound to a perpetual wandering or ‘circulationism’, here serve as major reference points for the development of the argument.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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22 January 2019
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digital images
visual culture
post-Internet art
remediation
Hito Steyerl
Allan Sekula
recirculation
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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25
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33
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Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 25–33
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Cite as:
Cristina Baldacci, ‘Recirculation: The Wandering of Digital Images in Post-Internet Art’, in Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 25-33 <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-15_04>