The+Historical+Moment+db

//The above image never happened. Or, more precisely, the image above is not photographic evidence of something that happened to Empire State Plaza. This is a digitally altered image made to look as though this massive building had been infiltrated, and "hacked" such that the grid-pattern lights spelled out the name of a local occupy collective. The relatively poor image manipulation is actually very evocative. It briefly startles the viewer, making them think the act of "vandalism" had occurred. It takes a few seconds, perhaps even minutes to notice that each point of light looks exactly the same and is thus, the image is the work of digital image alteration, not the selective turning on of lights. The important question however, is whether or not, or to what degree, that "matters."// This is a moment of seeming paradoxes. We are simultaneously segregated from one-another in the physical landscape, but are profoundly interested in connectivity and information exchange. We live in an era of assumed exponentially increasing profit, but are forever decreasing investment in shared public resources. We see a great deal (the image above being a good example), but are gravely lacking context and "holistic" modes of selection, curation, and interpretation.

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