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Poor Power Images in the Work of Hito Steyerl

Jolanda Wessel    Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany    

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In 2009 German video artist, documentary filmmaker and essayist Hito Steyerl releases her essay In Defense of the Poor Image. Her definition of the ‘poor’ image as “a copy in motion” can be transferred to contemporary mostly digital images in general. But with the new image technologies the artist diagnoses a replacement of poor images by power images, in the multiple meanings of the word ‘power’. In contrast to the proclaimed shift from poor images to power images the author rather speaks about poor power images. Instead of a replacement of poor images by power images one can observe poor images unfolding their powers while power images show various shades of poorness.

Pubblicato
22 Dicembre 2023
Accettato
30 Ottobre 2023
Presentato
17 Settembre 2023
Lingua
EN
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-771-5

Keywords: Poor power Images • Image theory • New media installation art • New Media Installation Art • Post-Representation • Poor power images • Materialism • Post-representation

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/013

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