Some subtle exposures of a certain phantom family appeared in my celebrity darkroom the other day…
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Katier shows: International Teletext Art Festival 16th August – 16th September
“The road begins from here. Teletext is the future.” Artist Janne Suni May 2012
Teletext, first invented some 30 years ago, utilizes the “vertical blanking interval” lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. Technically it has remained almost unchanged until recently when TV became digital. Teletext being an amazing success story still attracts millions of visitors daily for the latest news headlines, weather reports or sports results.
The potential of Teletext as an tool for artistic expression has not yet been fully discovered though the aesthetics of Teletext have slowly creeped in to the most fashionable street ware, graffiti and fine art. Is the next big word in intellectual small talk of the hip, rich and famous going to be teletextualism? Time will show, but since it happens The International Teletext Art Festival gives the possibility to the ARD Text users to decide for themselves.
Participating artists: Ashley Anderson, Bym, Frederic Cambus, Max Capacity, Cordula Ditz, Maria Duncker, Dan Farrimond, Kathrin Günter, Francis Hunger, Juha van Ingen, Raquel Meyers, Dave Needham, Rich Oglesby, Seppo Renvall, Janne Suni, Jarkko Räsänen and Kari Yli-Annala
The International Teletext Art Festival is a FixC cooperative project made in collaboration with ARD Text.
More info and press images:
Juha van Ingen FixC phone. +358 (0)405932694 email: itaf at fixc.fi
Info on exhibition: Pflueger68
ARD text website: ARD text
FixC cooperative: fixc
Star Shots III – Five New Materialisations
Star Shots III. The Go-between: Double
I think the same thing when I look at the pictures… but I know I’m a happy person. Yes, I created this persona and I’m very different from that. Victoria Beckham
Star Shots III – The Go-Between: The Double
Double, etheric counterpart of the physical body which, when out of coincidence, may temporarily move about in space in comparative freedom and appear in various degrees of density to others. The belief in the existence of the double, or astral body, is age old, its acceptance as a working hypothesis solves many a puzzling problem in psychical research.
Nandor Fodor, Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science 1966
Image from the series Star Shots III – The Go-between
Star Shots III – The Go-between
Of what is called spirit photography it is impossible to doubt that such photographs have been honestly produced or obtained by Sir Wm. Crookes, Mr. Traill Taylor, Mr. Glendinning, Rev. Stainton Moses, Madame d’Esperance, and others. They are of three main classes: (1) Portraits of living discarnate beings or spirits; (2) Pictures or effigies or lay figures, often very incomplete, and not necessarily human-like; (3) Reproductions of physical pictures, or other objects.
(D.B. M’Lachlan, in the Journal of the S.P.R., Feb. 1900, p. 185)
Excerpt from: Photographing The Invisible – Practical studies in supernormal photography, script, and other allied phenomena by James Coates, 1911, p. 16
Of what is called paparazzi photography it is impossible to doubt that such photographs have been honestly produced or obtained. They are of three main classes: (1) Portraits of living discarnate beings or spirits; (2) Pictures or effigies or lay figures, often very incomplete, and not necessarily human-like; (3) Reproductions of physical pictures, or other objects.
Below are some of quite a few exposures achieved in my darkroom experiments over the weekend. For now, I will call them The apparitions of Vic.
Star Shots III
The subtly exposed apparitions on my baryt paper prints are very difficult to scan, especially without being properly dry pressed. But still – it is possible to discover some flimsy silhouettes dwelling silently in the darkness.
Star Shots III
Another spirit celeb’ materialised herself in my darkroom cabinet today. As I mentioned in an earlier post the long announced Star Shots III series is slowly shaping into a rather ghostly series of images through a somehow mysterious agent.
The scan of the original hand proof (b/w baryt paper) below resembles rather strongly a certain Queen B.
Star Shots III – The go-between
For now I cannot reveal how the spirit of living celeb’ star J. exposed herself on my photographic paper (image below), but I do sense quite strongly, that she won’t be the only apparition in my darkroom cabinet.
With the new series, Star Shots III will gradually expose the subtle agent mediating closely between the spirit and the celebrity world.
