Personalization of the Media

Looking at place from somebody else's perspective mediated by digital photography only becomes an act of intimate perception when the whole concatenation of decisions that precede any mass media visual content has been collapsed into singe choice of individual photographer that as contemporary art curator wields within the domain of his or her subjective choices the authority that the growing number of institutions are forced to relate to in terms that render the sphere of personal privacy inviolate, which comes into pointed contradiction with the handling of privacy within the communications media that give so much pride of place to individual expression the primary among which would presently be the internet that in its drive to combine the spaces of data flows, contexts of their materialization, and personalization of its interfaces has apparently exacerbated the contradictions that have laid dormant within the situations that have been defined by less fluid media; the first modern period in this respect must appear hopelessly removed from the vertiginous streams of digitized exchanges that take us on their daily ebb and flow that we in our everyday routines set into reflexive motion.