ABSTRACT
This is a particularly challenging moment to work with images. Thanks to the entanglements of the visual with digital technologies, images are today constantly entering new territories, morphing their nature and appearances. They are, as those of us living in digitized environments discover every day, networks, relations and communities made visible (think of the textual dialogues, the “@” and the hashtags on the timelines of Facebook and Instagram); they are geographies (think of the incorporation of GPS metadata in the images we produce with our cameras); and they are also things (think about the popularity of 3D printing which, through the mediation of images, converts abstract ideas into material items, or about interactive documentaries (iDocs) and their constant invitations to engage with the world surrounding the viewers).
