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Feed (other people’s photos)
Feed is an enactment of a slide presentation of other people’s family photos. Captured on 35mm color positive film, each of these slides is a moment that has been chemically preserved in a format meant to be shared with others. Feed seeks to question the place of social engagement within social photography, and how that relationship has shifted over time. It explores the gray areas of social-image culture, highlighting the one-sided ways in which we (users of social-media, participants in social-photography) engage with images in our contemporary social-media landscape. Photo slides are a physical image format tied to collective engagement. They can only be shared within the confines of a political space, they necessitate social action to be seen. In our age of highly mediated algorithmically-driven image culture, social engagement has become largely removed from the way we interact with photos. Feed invites participants to come together over a meal and share in these moments captured by strangers, placing the act of scrolling through social-media feed in a social context.
Gary Whitt is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Winston-Salem, NC who is now based in New York City. Their work examines how we create meaning through material histories and relationships. Working across a wide variety of mediums, they seek to combine creative practice, curatorial practice, and systematic analysis to create new pathways for understanding how we construct concrete representations of subjective experience.
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