Work / Elegy to the American Republic (online installation)
Looking becomes a metaphor for devouring
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Elegy to the American Republic
This slideshow documents the online installation of 'Elegy to the American Republic.' Elegy contains 200 images of American war dead. Clicking on a thumbnail image allowed a larger version to be viewed. With each viewing the image would degrade, gradually becoming almost completely white and disappearing into the page.
Questions raised by this work:
What happens to memory when the images are gone?
How does the act of devouring alter our perception?
What happens when we realize that someone else has already looked?
What sort of truths are expressed if you can change the image?
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Robert Spahr
February 11, 2007
Image Degradation - time lapse
A video showing a time lapse sequence of an image degrading.
Further Resources
Elegy to the American Republic (tiles)
Mixed-media works using the Elegy images as source material.
The Memory Hole
Source images for this project were downloaded from the memory hole which obtained them using the Freedom of Information Act.
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