Digitalis and Dichography
In the cycle DIGITALIS, the play with reality and the image of a memory casually marks the transition from analog to digital photography.
In various series since 1983, the fragments of authenticity within photography are slowly and inexorably dissolved with technical developments. The loss of authenticity in photography due to digital technology and its possibilities of creating new "worlds" are also reflected in social and political changes. In the course of digitalization in the coming decades, the change of consciousness will progress as photographs and images are received.
The introduction of the new AI image generation tools now marks the end point of the development from the analogue age of photography into the new digital age and thus also the conclusion of the cycle DIGITALIS.
The "time machine" into the past, which was made possible by analog photography, is extended by a "time machine" that not only allows us to travel into a fictitious past, present and future, but also to imitate all genres of imagery.
What should we call these new images?
An image that looks like a photograph but is not one must have its own name in order to distinguish it clearly and unmistakably from a photograph. The world of new images will not only be created through prompts, but in the future through diverse combinations of different tools. I call these new images DICHOGRAPHY.
The evolution of the DIGITALIS cycle is divided into four levels:
I Analogue composition
II Digital Alteration
III Digital composition
IV Dichography
The World of New Images (Die Welt der Neuen Bilder).
3 Essays published in October 2023.
The series are sorted chronologically
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