I/O

Natascha Christina Petersen

The project I/O, consisting of a photo book and a video installation, challenges the theoretical aspects of the ‘New Theory’ on a practical level and inquires into the boundaries of what a photograph actually is when it is digitised and converted into 1’s and 0’s. By manipulating the photographs in the software Dragonfly – used to create models for analysis and works by analysing light-intensity of pixels – the photographs are transformed and investigated. The soundscape fo the video installation was created using the software Audacity, where the binary code of a photograph is converted into sound rather than a visual output. The project also addresses the question of agency, a question which has been a constant in photographic theory, by asking who the author is: nature, apparatus or photographer. Finally, I/O seeks to understand when a photograph stops being a photograph, and starts being something else.