Google Image Search: Albers
2019
I began research for my contribution to SNAPline by searching Google Images for the most canonical duo of printmaking colourists – Josef and Anni Albers. Solid fields of colour flitted where the images were about to appear. These were placeholders, algorithmically derived from the dimensions and dominant colours of the actual images that were in the process of loading. The penultimate compositions were strikingly Albersian. In recognition of this, I exported them and removed everything but the rectangles of colour.
These are the preliminary results of my preliminary research for my contribution to SNAPline. They also are my contribution, and in a way, the contribution of various algorithms, institutions, photographers, archivists, web surfers, and of course, Josef and Anni Albers.
The impermanence, speed, and social becoming of these colours support the Alberses’ belief that colour is much more than a static product of science – it behaves, it acts. Colour is vibrant, no matter its intensity. Colour is, like this contribution, forever in progress.
2019
I began research for my contribution to SNAPline by searching Google Images for the most canonical duo of printmaking colourists – Josef and Anni Albers. Solid fields of colour flitted where the images were about to appear. These were placeholders, algorithmically derived from the dimensions and dominant colours of the actual images that were in the process of loading. The penultimate compositions were strikingly Albersian. In recognition of this, I exported them and removed everything but the rectangles of colour.
These are the preliminary results of my preliminary research for my contribution to SNAPline. They also are my contribution, and in a way, the contribution of various algorithms, institutions, photographers, archivists, web surfers, and of course, Josef and Anni Albers.
The impermanence, speed, and social becoming of these colours support the Alberses’ belief that colour is much more than a static product of science – it behaves, it acts. Colour is vibrant, no matter its intensity. Colour is, like this contribution, forever in progress.
