Revolutions of Resolution

Authors

  • Joaquin Zerené Harcha Universidad del Desarrollo; Universidad del Pacífico
  • Paula Cardoso Pereira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i1.510

Keywords:

poor image, audiovisual capitalism, digital image, hierarchy of images, image-value, image circulation

Abstract

Digital technologies have profoundly transformed the process of production and transmission of visual information and images. From a critical perspective on visual culture this article proposes an analysis of low-resolution digital images, here treated as poor images (Steyerl), in today’s “class society of images”. Resolution refers to a material dimension of images that needs to be explored. A critical approximation to the role of poor images in today’s transnational and global communication asks for a focus on their modes of circulation, politics of accessibility and property rights as well as on the role of materiality in the economy of contemporary visual culture.

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Published

2014-03-21

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Special Issue: Critical Visual Theory

License

tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.