links to noise
at some point a trace cannot be distinguished – figure ground problem. The ground can be viewed as noise and the trace -signal.
link also to forensics
Traces can be linked to narrative – a positivist view of history – evidence.
The spectre is associated with noise (haunted media) breakdown or technology
Ghost in the machine.
Spectrality – Disputed chronology – neither present nor absent
Negatives
Negative – light exposes dark. Day to Night. Materialistic view of photography – grounding
spectral aspects in material. Dialectic that maps on to dualistic thinking.
Photomicrography of the negative. Stain of light.
Scanning a macro lens or objective over a negative. Link to the Blow-up.
Grain of the image – grain of the voice. Grain becomes noise. Tape and grains- background noise.
Hissing snake- the serpent. Air escaping from a hole. Aperture stop.
Noise – figure. Ground. Measuring a signal image in noise. Falling dust composite video.
The impossible image – limits of technology.
The impossible film.
Relation to Antonioni- Crossing the Tibor.
Photographs of hematite powder on a surface, inverted and manipultated in photoshop. Areas randomly selected displaced and blended. Could be automated.
A kind of texture field, noise rather than structure.
