Η Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου επιλέγει …
Για το photologio, η φωτογράφος Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου ανασύρει από το προσωπικό της αρχείο 4+1 αγαπημένες της φωτογραφίες, και μας τις παρουσιάζει μαζί με προσωπικές σκέψεις και αναμνήσεις …
Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
(George Orwell, 1984)
Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου
“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.”
(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed)
Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
(Frank Herbert, Dune)
Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου
“He was like a kid who’d grown up beside an ocean, taking it as much for granted as he took the sky, but knowing nothing of currents, shipping routes, or the ins and outs of weather. He’d used decks in school, toys that shuttled you through the infinite reaches of that space that wasn’t space, mankind’s unthinkably complex consensual hallucination, the matrix, cyberspace, where the great corporate hotcores burned like neon novas, data so dense you suffered sensory overload if you tried to apprehend more than the merest outline.”
(William Gibson, Count Zero)
Η Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου επιλέγει … Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen, They watched the moon (2010)
This photograph depicts a classified “listening station”deep in the forests of West Virginia. The station is located at the center of the “National Radio Quiet Zone,” a region of approximately 34,000 square kilometres in West Virginia and parts of Maryland. Within the Quiet Zone, radio transmissions are severely restricted: omnidirectional and high-powered transmissions (such as wireless internet devices and FM radio stations) are not permitted.
The listening station, which forms part of the global ECHELON system, was designed in part to take advantage of a phenomenon called “moonbounce.” Moonbounce involves capturing communications and telemetry signals from around the world as they escape into space, hit the moon, and are reflected back towards Earth.
Ο Trevor Paglen είναι αμερικανός γεωγράφος, καλλιτέχνης, συγγραφέας και ακτιβιστής, που ζει και εργάζεται στο Βερολίνο. Το έργο του ασχολείται με θέματα σχετικά με την παραγωγή εικόνων από συστήματα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης, συστήματα δορυφορικής παρακολούθησης και μαζικής συγκέντρωσης δεδομένων και τα «αόρατα δίκτυα». Βρίσκω τη δουλειά του εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα.
“When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist – they are less willing to take up controversial positions – and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.”
(Trevor Paglen)
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Η Χρυσαλένα Αντωνοπούλου γεννήθηκε το 1983. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα ως photo archivist. Ξεκίνησε το 2013 να φωτογραφίζει και η ίδια και έχει λάβει μέρος σε ομαδικές εκθέσεις.
