Alexander Harding
MFA ’11 Photography
When my children go to bed I watch television. It’s a way to decompress at the end of a long day. At the outset of this work, I began to question what I was actually looking at. I wanted to see the elements that brought information electronically to my eyes. I began to set up the camera at a very close distance to the screen. The photographs in this exhibition are the product of this process. They are of approximately two inches of television screen taken at singular moments. To me, these pictures are a visual representation of the transfer of information through light. Printed at roughly the same size as a television screen, these images allow one to see the individual elements of the screen as they produce an image. Although the images photographed may not be recognizable, they form a ‘digital textile’ of transmitted information.
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