recognition – Marco Montalto

The light of the body is the eye

It is impossible to know anything. Knowledge is a chimera. If it wasn’t for the textbook in front of you, you wouldn’t have even come to know the brain. The brain is an excellent example; the quintessential example of a model modelled on a model modelled to model one into a model thinking agent. The…

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By: montaltomarco December 8, 2023December 8, 2023

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We say: “this painting is so photographic!” Or, maybe: “it looks so real – just like a photograph!” We take the adjective and turn it into a term: the photographic. Necessarily, then, ‘the photographic’ is something we all recognise. It follows, then, that ‘the photographic’ is the moment of recognition itself. Is this term understandable…

I(:) met you

Picture yourself in an art gallery eyeing the mysterious beauty of some post-modern painterly disaster hanging on one of the gallery walls. Conceive now the world you are standing in, the very same world that holds in its bosom those atrocious paintings hanging on the gallery walls, as one unitary painterly mess. Yourself now, as Pantocrator,…

The Crucible

The photographic is the act of recognition. The pictorial is the look that makes us want to (keep on) look(ing). Photographs and paintings can both evince the photographic. A photograph can labour to attain the pictorial. A painting necessarily evinces primarily the pictorial. But is it wholly correct to say that a painting necessarily evinces…

On pain and how to photograph it

Let us start by postulating that pain is staged. Such a postulation would make pain somewhat irreal, a game even. But we know that when we feel pain, we feel its pangs genuinely enough. In experiencing pain, we do not sense anything irreal about it, let alone do we consider that it might all be…

Who was Hecuba’s mother?

Wikipedia tells us that vector graphics are “computer graphics images that are defined in terms of 2D points, which are connected by lines and curves to form polygons and other shapes. Each of these points has a definite position on the x- and y-axis of the work plane and determines the direction of the path; further, each path may have various properties…