Networked Video

Featured image: Rachel Ryle, January 1 2019, Happy New Year from New York…, Instagram, viewed 1 May 2019, <https://www.instagram.com/p/BsER6KdFVWx/>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Rachel Ryle. Ryle is a self-taught artist, illustrator and animator who was able to turn her hobby into a full time job and uses […]

Networked Photography

Featured image: Murad Osmann, August 20 2018, #FollowMeTo romantic Paris…, Instagram, viewed 16 April 2019, <instagram.com/p/Bmr7eH0nyxQ>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Murad Osmann and his Instagram account name is @muradosmann. Osmann first started this Instagram account in July 2011, originally posting ordinary location photos with inbuilt Instagram filters, but it wasn’t […]

Analogue Video

Featured image: Smithsonian American Art Museum 1998, Megatron Matrix, photograph, viewed 7 April 2019, <https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/megatronmatrix-36486>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? The practitioner’s name is Nam June Paik. He was a Korean American artist and is considered to be the founder and ‘Father of video art’.  After immigrating to New York, Paik continued with […]

Analogue Photography

Featured image: Henri-Cartier Bresson 1961, Sifnos, Greece, photograph, viewed 2 April 2019, <https://collections.artsmia.org/art/99751/sifnos-greece-henri-cartier-bresson>. Who is the practitioner and when were they practicing? Henri-Cartier Bresson was a photographer, born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France. Bresson always had a fascination for painting and drawing, particularly he was interested in surrealism. Bresson started his photography career in the early 1930s after discovering […]