Jeff Weber | Image Storage Containers

Book Presentation | September 30, 2023 | Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange

A book presentation and a visit of the exhibition in presence of the artist is organized by the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA) on Saturday, 30 September at 11 a.m.

 

Exhibition until Sunday, 1 October, 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. - Free Entry.

 

Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Display01

1b, rue du Centenaire, L-3475 Dudelange, Luxembourg

 

 
Ostensibly as documentary in nature as his work on The Family of Man, Image Storage Containers (2012) does something closely related in intention to Weber’s previous series and yet very different. On one level, it condenses, as Marie Muracciole has noted, two moments in the myth of photography as a “universal language”: the first involving The Family of Man-as-imperial project; the second, pho­tography’s sheer technicity as a mecha­nical means of reproduction, with all the attendant connotations of objective scien­tificity. Atop this interfolding of meanings one can discern two additional layers: the Image Storage Containers as a kind of “thought experiment,” an auto-pedagogical exercise in schematizing the human ner­vous system, and, a more polemical read, a proposition about the present conditions for viewing photographs within today’s networked image regime—at a moment when computer technologies, themselves predicated upon neuroscience findings on human perception and cognition, have precipitated a mass transformation of p-social behavior.

— Michael Baers

 

  

Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers, 2023
Book, offset duotone printing, 112 p., 24 x 17.1 cm

Edition of 600 copies

 

The book has been published on the occasion of Jeff Weber’s exhibition Image Storage Containers at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg, 6 May-1 October 2023. Published by Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg, in co-edition with Institute of Contemporary Art New York, and Gevaert Editions, Brussels

 

Concept and photographs by Jeff Weber with contributions by Michael Baers Edited by Michèle Walerich and Asger Taiaksev

Printed by Cultura, Gent
ISBN: 978-99959-809-4-8

Price: 32,00€

 

Book available online at CNA and at Gevaert Editions

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