Lecture: Bruns - I Shot Myself

Lecture series, Vienna/Austria:
About Public Actions and Aesthetic Journeys – Photography and the Internet

Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7 pm
*I Shot Myself–Photography as Intimate Medium of Protocol
Leture by Karin Bruns

The World Wide Web is saturated with biographic formats which show, illustrate, or set the most private details to music. As it seems, these formats are the manifestation of the paradox of a published intimacy, including the routines of everyday life (*Preparing a cup of coffee), biographical borderline situations (*I think I’m dying like my father did), or even including sexual practices (*Me and my Ex doing it). Which forms of familiarity and confidentiality are generated within the framework of the new online formats? And which role does photography play in this context?