Posts By: Leonieke van Dipten

The Militarized Selfie and the #selfiewithdaughter Campaign

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 13, 2017

 22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Rebecca Stein talked about how social media became militarized in the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories and Jillet Sara Sam discusses the empowerment in the digital political field, influenced by the digital-self-as-citizens in the #selfiewithdaugther campaign. Rebecca Stein: The Militarized Selfie and [...]

From Selfies to Biometrics and Playing at Diminished Reality in East-Jerusalem

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 12, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Olga Goriunova describes that self hood and truth are linked by a distance, in which the factual and the fictional are re-arranged. The face become material for algorithmic analysis, that forms the debate of indexical truth and algorithmic objectivity. Fabio Cristiano and Emilio [...]

Maintenance Pornography

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 9, 2017

23 May 2017, Art and Multimedia Projects, Roma Tre University By Antonia Hernandez Maintenance Pornography is part of an in-progress research that looks into amateur sexcams, particularly the American website chaturbate.com, and explores domestic life in the context of Platform Capitalism. Through a performative installation, this project asks about the role of habits and maintenance [...]

The World Behind Your Back

By Leonieke van Dipten, June 6, 2017

22 May 2017, Session 1: Behind and Beyond Selfies, John Cabot University Ana Peraica’s presentation focused on the selfie and self-images in regard to the places their recorded in. She approaches the selfie as a way to report the world behind ones back. Ana starts her keynote with a personal story of her grandfather who [...]

Perspectives on self-representation in our new Print on Demand

By Leonieke van Dipten, May 23, 2017

We are proud to present the book of Ana Peraica: Culture of the Selfie, Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture. Download Culture of the Selfie here. By Bella Calabretta Despite not defining herself as a photographer, the author was raised in a studio, in direct contact with visual practices in the pre-smartphone era. This ambience has [...]