How often do you try to take a picture of the moon only to realize it doesn’t look how you imagined? How many people are uploading their photos of the moon to the Internet at this very moment? Considering the ubiquity of screen images in everyday life, Imperfect Pictures examines our approaches to them: linking, clicking, saving, discarding, editing, dumping, forgetting. Students slowed down to consider the role of photography outside of a “hi-res” context. They looked at and created ugly pictures, spam, compressed images, screenshots, facetuned selfies, .gifs, stock photography, boring images, useless images, memes, and badly performing social photographs.
Learn more about the class at the School for Poetic Computation website.
Taught by: Molly Soda, Kayla Drzewicki, Will Allstetter