unthinking
photography

"Use of capture technology involves a level of selective resolution; an emphasis of certain elements over others. As the image production process isn’t a linear hermetic process, decisions are taken in it’s production that will be visible in the rendered outcome..."

The artist and designer Tobias Revell has been invited by The Photographers' Gallery digital programme to curate a strand for Unthinking Photography on the theme of photography, rendering and CGI and their effect in architecture and the built environment. In this text the curator of the series introduces the topic through a short history of image …

Susan Schuppli considers the digitally rendered spaces of James Bridle’s project Seamless Transitions. Behind the closed doors of high security locations in the UK, we are invited to witness – wrapped in the fluid form of computer animation – the architecture, administration and politics of the War on Terror.