Analog/digital (part I)
master thesis @ Academy of Applied Arts, Rijeka
(September 2014)
Humans always had the need to permanently note fleeting moments. After drawing and painting, photography became the main medium for recording moments and memories. In my master thesis at the Academy of Applied Arts, photography was an eye through which I observed my memories and tried to take note of them.
Considering the ubiquity of digital photography, I felt the need to go back to the basics of photographic image – camera obscura. This project is a hybrid of analog and digital photography, since I used both processes in the making of final images.
It all started with making a camera obscura: I turned one of the rooms in my house into a human-size pinhole camera. By making a collage of the physical reality and a projection of outside world, I’ve created a room without an actual reality and stepped into the area of Baudrillard’s simulacrum – perfect copy without an original. In this room, everything was real and nothing was.
