The Moving Photograph at SPE

Viewing an enlargement of a microchip as a work of art in the exhibition, Information art, MOMA, c. 1989; "Picture Weave" blanket (created with a jacquard loom) displayed at a jewelry store, 2006.
Our panel, The Moving Photograph in a Digital World, is scheduled for the SPE conference in Miami, March 2007. In company with Patti Ambrogi and David Tomas, I'll be exploring photography's struggle with time through images that
are neither fixed nor entirely in motion. My particular effort will be to unpack Norbert Wiener's notion of the "operative image" as the latest incarnation of the mechanical picture tradition that runs parallel to photography and leads to the fantastic whirling of the computer microchip. In seeing how images functionally "tick" (mechanically and cybernetically), we can proceed to seeing moving photographs as a cognitive process of informing the world. See: Moving Photograph proposal