Endre Cserna's Articles
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When forms like the “MySpace angle” emerged

Interview with Brookly-based Canadian freelance writer, video game designer and podcaster merritt k about her new publication LAN Party

 

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“Archives are all about decisions and whoever puts together an archive decides what is shown and what is forgotten. The archive is not a neutral space.” 

Interview with New York City-based artist Pacifico Silano

Pacifico Silano, born in 1986 in Brooklyn, NY is a conceptual artist specializing in lens-based practices.

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“They’re often nostalgic images because that’s what they remind us of: the momentary reprieve from drudgery.”

Interview with writer, photographer, and blogger Matt Colquhoun

Their new book Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie was recently published on Repeater Books and presents an alternative interpretation of the selfie.

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A constant state of flux between uses and misuses

Interview with Michal Simunek

Michal Simunek is a Czech academic specialising in media studies and sociology. His scholarly interests span various fields, including the theory and history of photography, media studies, visual culture, consumer culture, and ethnographic research methodologies.

 

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Interview with visual anthropologist & critic András Bán

Hungarian Interview Series (with English subtitles)

András Bán (1951), visual anthropologist, teacher, art critic, has been publishing reviews and essays specifically on fine-art photography and contemporary art since 1973. From 1993, he taught visual anthropology at the Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University of Miskolc, and was co-founder of the Private Photo and Film Archives’s research group.

 

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“Navigating the complexities of working with images, especially those depicting other cultures, poses numerous challenges”

Interview with Austrian visual artist & publisher Lukas Birk, who recently visited Budapest as a guest lecturer for our event, 'Talks on Everyday Imaging.' Simultaneously, he launched a new platform, Vernacular Social Club, an association dedicated to promoting and disseminating vernacular documents. The club's founding members also include Jean-Marie Donat, Thomas Sauvin and Christophe Thiebaut.

 

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A short note on wrist-spotting

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The most interesting visual experience for me last year happened on the most surprising platform, and it has continued to captivate my imagination ever since, especially considering that the images themselves may not necessarily be interesting at first glance.

 

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"We are living in the image world"
Interview with Andrew Dewdney,
co-founder of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image

Andrew Dewdney, a research professor at London South Bank University, specialises in examining the paradoxes within contemporary visual culture through his extensive theoretical work. He is committed to developing systematic methods to unravel and comprehend these multifaceted complexities. His research primarily focuses on how computation has transformed the photographic image and how museum studies can aid in understanding the challenges related to heritages, collections, and archives in a born-digital world.

 

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“We want to display the variability of Jewish identity” – Interview with the team behind J Photo Archive – Collectors & their collection vol. 2.

J Photo Archive is a platform committed to preserving the photographic heritage of Jewish history and culture in Hungary. Its primary goal is to curate a diverse collection of photographs, with the potential for expansion through new, submitted materials from various sources.

 

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The archive is a place where truth meets fiction

Interview with Belgian-Spanish artist Masha Wysocka. Her latest project, also in the form of an artist’s book, Truth is Stranger than Fiction, will soon be exhibited at the Circulation(s) Festival 2024 in Paris. This project utilises two different archival holdings from the Blinken Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary.

 

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Editor’s Letter – March & April, 2024

In this article, you'll find two editorials from our latest newsletters, which were sent out on April 2nd and March 4th, 2024. Moving forward, we will publish our monthly editor's letters, in which we always reflect on recent events, approximately two weeks after the newsletter is out.

 

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“My flatmate has an average screen time of 14 hours, and she’s doing great.” – Interview with Zurich-based artist Gaia Del Santo

Gaia Del Santo’s artistic approach draws inspiration from the diverse and formative phenomena of the online world, consumerism, and social media cultures. Besides sculpture, textile, and video, she incorporates aesthetic and photographic elements of online platforms, internet trends, and memes into her analytical yet spirited multimedia compositions.

 

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Editor’s Letter – July, 2024 – brat summer

In this article, you can read the editorial from our latest newsletter written by Eidolon-editor Endre Cserna, which were sent out on July 1st, 2024. We publish our monthly editor's letters, in which we reflect on recent events, approximately two weeks after the newsletter is out. This month, we took a brief look at the visual characteristics and everyday photographic aspects of Charli XCX's latest album campaign.

 

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“As societies, we are much more image-savvy than we used to be, and children grow up in visual cultures which they are also very adept at deciphering”
– Interview with researcher and writer Melissa Nolas

 Visual sociologist Melissa Nolas is the Director of the Childhood Publics Research Programme and the Children’s Photography Archive. The London-based institution offers a digital infrastructure for the collection and curation of these image materials, and for the research of children's visual cultures, children's photography, and visual ethics.

 

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“Why are girls denied climbing trees?” – Interview with journalist and curator Laura Leonelli –
Collectors & their collection vol. 4.

Laura Leonelli’s 2023 book I Won’t Come Down: Women Who Climb Trees and Look into the Distance, published by Postcart Edizioni, collects a hundred anonymous photographic portraits of women climbing trees from the late 19th century to the 1970s and includes texts from feminist authors.

 

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Editor’s Letter – August, 2024
On Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1979 film 'Camera Buff'

In this article, you can read the editorial from our latest newsletter, written by Eidolon editor Endre Cserna, which was sent out on August 1st, 2024. The piece discusses Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1979 film Camera Buff.

 

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“If you look deep inside a family’s archive, you will find that people very rarely use the camera to capture a non-positive event” – Interview with Tihomir Stoyanov

Started by Tihomir Stoyanov and Johanna Trayanova in 2019, the main mission of the Bulgarian Visual Archive (BVA) is to digitally preserve and share the visual heritage of 20th-century Bulgaria, including photographic and video materials, as well as to provide imagery for researchers, historians, journalists, enthusiasts, and artists. The online, open-access, and everyday life-focused archive’s intention is to show an impartial image of the country’s socialist past, and it also aims to build a community around similar initiatives. Based in Sofia, the BVA has over 100,000 found or donated negatives and slides. We interviewed one of the platform’s founders, photographer and archivist Tihomir Stoyanov.

 

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"The use of surveillance and control by these apparatuses is dangerous in general for a healthy civic society around the world” – Interview with Christopher Gregory-Rivera

New York City-based Puerto Rican photographer Christopher Gregory-Rivera’s 2023 photo-book El Gobierno Te Odia ("The Government Hates You") delves into one of the longest-running surveillance programs in Puerto Rican history. Over a decade, Gregory-Rivera examined more than forty thousand surveillance images and documents produced between 1940 and 1987. Designed to resemble a government dossier, the publication utilizes risograph printing and binding bolts to replicate the look and feel of archival materials. It features previously classified content from the National Archives of Puerto Rico, including a surveillance manual detailing monitoring techniques.

 

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Editor's Letter – October, 2024
Plato & the spooky season

As we find ourselves deep into autumn—the spooky season—we’d like to recommend a Japanese-American horror film that centres around the Internet, infinite loops of images, and monitors.

 

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