Mediowanie pamięci. O pinhole raz jeszcze
Mediating memory. Pinhole photography again

Summary/Abstract: An article discusses two issues: continuous returns of archaic photographic techniques in artistic practice and a circulation of “technical” memory (or as Jacques Derrida called it – “artificial” memory, hypomnesis) in media, which are destined to its storage. In my opinion, it is an interplay of theory and practice that enlighten the significance of by gone technologies for contemporary culture. That is why, though a theoretical ground for my reflection is founded on concepts by among the others Siegfried Zielinski, Vilém Flusser, Sean Cubitt and José van Dijck, I analyse two case studies from the domain of art. The first issue: a return to archaic photography is presented on the example of Self creatures (Autotwory) a series of works by Jarosław Klupś, the second: a circulation of memory is based on The Dichotomy of Nests (Dychotomia gniazd) by Georgia Krawiec. The text is divided into three parts. The first presents a brief description of pinhole photography and a history of its artistic re-interpretations, the second focuses on the difference in reception of recording of the past and pre‑digital and digital media, and finally in the third one, I direct towards a mechanism of circulation of ideas, which are visualised by wide understood media.

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