Institutions of Resolutions Disputes
Details
- Artist: Rosa Menkman
- Year: 2015
- Dimensions: {'length': '1', 'height': '40', 'width': '40'}
- Medium: Digital Print on Acrylic, Unique set of 5 prints
- Gallery: TRANSFER Gallery
Description
Resolutions inform both machine vision and human ways of perception. Rules, or protocols, change data in order to store, show, move and connect between technologies. Protocols, together with objects and their materialities, form the resolutions that make technology run smoothly (Alexander Galloway, Protocol, 2006). But these resolutions form not only a solution, but also a compromise between multiple underlying media properties. A resolution is not a neutral facility but carries historical, economical and political ideologies. The cost of all of these media protocols is that we have gradually become unaware of the choices and compromises they represent. We are collectively suffering from technological hyperopia where these qualities have moved beyond a fold of perspective.
Resolutions involve
Have we become bad at constructing our own resolutions, or are we just oblivious to resolutions and their inherent compromises?