how visual life logging is changing photography
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My talk from SXSW Interactive 2014 What happens when you take a photo of every fragment of your life? All those micro moments that are recorded and analysed. Has your visual existence been enhanced? What would you learn from your signature photographic aesthetic? This talk will explore the notion that an 'unexamined (visual) life is not worth living'. My talk will explore the implications of what mainstream visual life logging means for individuals, culture and photography. The talk will use data from my trial of a leading visual life logging wearable camera. I will mix quantified self analytics with ‘qualified self’ data to interpret my visual record and its signature aesthetic. I will contrast the culture of visual life logging with the rituals of analogue photographic albums to gain a better understanding of how we are changing the way we preserve and narrate memories and share experiences across the social graph.TRANSCRIPT
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by David McNamara 08/02/14
How is visual life logging changing photography?
#sigvisuals @deemac99
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The past is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves
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100 1,000,000+
Source: Eric Kessels
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Visual life logging: the act of visually recording your life
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Source: National Media Museum
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Source: Atget / Walker Evans / Vivian Maier
Master collectors Eugene Atget Vivian Maier Walker Evans
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“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates, 470 – 399BC
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“learning by being” Source: Steve Mann in ‘Lifeloggers The Movie’ by Narrative
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Quantified (Objective)
Qualified (Subjective)
Art (
mea
ning
) Science (truth)
Visual life
logging
Make better decisions Reach higher goals
Create meaning Find insights
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Capturing unguarded private moments
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Averaged 687 photos per day
Total 49k photos
Total 58 days
#Commute #Food
#Ceiling #Nappies
#desk
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Source: Inspired by Cathal Gurrin
Reflection Recall Retrieval Reminiscence
Life logging is hard work
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Passive Active
Un-composed
Objective
Authorless
Composed
Subjective
Narrative
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Source: @deemac99
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Source: Yahoo / Ellen DeGeneres
1 trillion+ photos will be taken in 2014
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“…the desire to photograph the whole world is not an attempt to recover or create memories… It is a need to affirm experience as expressible and to create an aura of talismanic protection. Sometimes to gain that affirmation you have to give up pursuing it.”
Source: Photographs Not Taken, Will Steacy
Will Steacy
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Source: Linda Henkel, Fairfield University, Point and Shoot Memories, 2014
Taking photos can impair your ability to remember…
“…finding highlights key differences between people’s memory and the camera’s “memory” and suggests that the additional attentional and cognitive processes engaged by this focused activity can eliminate the photo-taking-impairment effect.”
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…but can digital archives make memories more ‘true’?
Source: Scott Fraser
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We need a Search Engine For The Self Source: Memory Mesh: Cognitive Psychology Linking for Ememories / Cathal Gurrin
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Source: Yang Yong, Fancy in Tunnel
Expressive & Intimate
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The New Aesthetic
Source: John Rafman / 9 Eyes
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Explorable Mindscapes Source: Kwan Alan
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Source: Chino Otsuka / Imagine Finding Me
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Source: ‘Her’ Warner Bros
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Source: Cognea
Personal AI agents
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Curation can save us all!
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Algorithmic Photography
data context creativity
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From real EXIF data…
…to ememory meta data
Source: @deemac99
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Source: @deemac99 / Creative Commons
The Life Cura,on Agent is your complete visual life logging pla9orm. It can integrate with all your tracking devices, auto curate your life and enhance your life stories. Choose your cura,on avatar type that will learn how to explore and find the paBerns of significance in your archive.
Life Curation Agent
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Source: @deemac99 / Creative Commons
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Find your halo moments Source: @deemac99
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Source: @deemac99 / Creative Commons
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From libraries… …to exhibitions.
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Algorithmic Photography is a new lens for a new world
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Log life not data
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Thankyou
#sigvisuals @deemac99
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Slide 2 - http://sploid.gizmodo.com/scientists-watch-how-the-brain-makes-memories-for-the-f-1509923347/@barrett Slide 3 - http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-procedure.php Slide 4 - http://www.nomadarte.com/ Slide 5 - http://www.exporevue.com/artistes/fr/radisic/act2.html Slide 6/7 - http://fqwimages.com/about-myself/ Slide 10 - http://phototrails.net/bangkok/ Slide 11 - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/is-facebook-making-us-forget-study-shows-that-taking-pictures-ruin-memories-8994917.html Slide 13 - http://selfiecity.net/#findings Socrates - http://www.emersonkent.com/history_notes/socrates.htm Atget Organ Grinder- http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/283261 Real Life Instagram - http://reallifeinstagram.com/ Imagine Finding Me - http://chino.co.uk/ Steve Mann / Lifeloggers The Movie - http://vimeo.com/61947763 Karl Baden - http://vimeo.com/user6454056 Kodak - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/ Vivian Maier - http://www.vivianmaier.com/ Apple Mood Ad Serving - http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/23/apple-investigating-mood-based-ad-delivery-system New Aesthetic - http://jonrafman.com/ Point and Shoot Memories - http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/04/0956797613504438.abstract Molecular Basis of Memory - http://www.einstein.yu.edu/news/releases/968/watching-molecules-morph-into-memories/ Neural Networks - http://cs.brown.edu/people/tld/note/blog/13/07/26/ Memory Mesh - http://hma.dcu.ie/HMA/Home.html Search Engine For The Self - http://hma.dcu.ie/HMA/Home.html Lisa Congdon - http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lisa-congdon-photography-journal# Eric Kessels - http://www.kesselskramer.com/ PhotoTrails - http://phototrails.net/ Exhibition - http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2010/09/hangme.html Jenny Davis - http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/03/13/the-qualified-self/ Richard Billingham - http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/billingham.shtml I trillion photos - http://bgr.com/2013/12/24/how-many-selfies-were-taken-in-2013/