Taking her outset in the everyday practice of sharing photos on social media, Lone Koefoed Hansen analyses the online visual project “Tracking Transience” by American media artist Hasan Elahi. Relating it to French artist Sophie Calle’s performative artwork “The Shadow (Detective)” as well as the popular iPhone app “Instragram”, the essay argues that Elahi’s project can be understood as a comment on the idea (and misconception) that the mobile’s camera will help us remember better and more.
Translated title of the contribution
The limits of mediated reminiscence
Original language
Danish
Book series
Passepartout
Issue
33
Pages (from-to)
131-150
Number of pages
20
ISSN
0908-5351
Publication status
Published - 2012
Research areas
mobile media, surveillance, photography, social media
