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