The photographer is not a vicious man
I probably like too much to undress people. Just a few days after the september 2005 session of Ex/timité - where dozens of people have pressed their skin on my scanner - iMAL made a call for participation in a workshop. They were setting up a three-weeks-long run, with a pack of talented people helping up to ten artists to piece together their interactive installations.
A few hours later, I came up with a nice idea for the call, an idea I’d really like to experiment : The photographer is not a vicious man. An interactive installation that could have the same effect on the participant as a low grade glamour photographer would have on a beginner model: push that person to undress more !
The title came from a song composed by Philip Glass. And the set mimic a photography studio set, where only the photographer is missing. iMAL liked the project. But unfortunately, I was unable to arrange to go to Bruxelles to work on it and set it up, for lack of time and fund for the project.
So this a stalled project for the moment.
But you can read more, in french, on the dedicated page.
March 6th, 2007 at 20:25
[…] As for the issues I’m interested in, the list comprise social relationships and temporary communities, infra-sexual activities (The photographer is not a vicious man, Glory Hands), gender studies, the portrait, sciences and art, city spatiality and urban form (3 studies on motion), UI playabilty and interactive video.” JLNDRR IMAGES & SITUATIONS Paris, France […]
September 6th, 2007 at 02:57
[…] With the unrealized project The photographer is not a vicious man, I planned to automate the power of the photographer over the model. With The blind model, I personnaly assume that dominant role, to the extend of depriving the model of his/her sight - replacing it with the vision from the camera. The bonus of an augmented vision, with its layer of information about light, focus and its zoom, is tied to the loss of control over the model’s own sight. […]
July 6th, 2008 at 15:13
[…] Je m’intéresse plus à la photographie comme forme d’interaction sociale, plutôt que dans le résultat photographique même. Prendre les personnes en photo modifie leur comportement. Une séance photo peut être une performance en soi, les images sont simplement des traces de ces moments. La relation photographe / modèle est finalement très asymétrique. Dans le projet non réalisé Le photographe n’est pas un homme vicieux, j’avais prévu d’automatiser la puissance du photographe sur son modèle. Avec le modèle aveugle , j’assume totalement ce rôle dominant, jusqu’au point de priver le modèle de sa vue immédiate et de la remplacer par celle de la caméra. Les avantages de cette vision augmentée, avec ses couches d’informations supplémentaires de lumière, de focus et de zoom, est lié à la perte de contrôle de sa propre vue. […]