"Contemporary Art Blur"

I made Contemporary Art Blur (http://contemporaryartblur.com) while working as the Registrar/Archivist at a contemporary gallery in San Francisco. I currently work as a freelance photographer for artists and galleries in New York City. This has queued me into the importance of images in the art world. Images pay my bills.

While working, the oceans rose flooding the galleries. The servers of archived photographs stopped running. The exhibition catalogues became wet; smudging the images into an unrecognizable blur.

The art world attempts to solidify all artworks into images. Images that function as a proxy for the work themselves. They can be bought, sold, traded, orphaned, and overwritten.

Contemporary Art Blur creates another type of image, making the hi-res images of art into blotchy relics.

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Questions to ask in the era of the Gaussian function:

* Should artists be more aware of the image production of their works?

* What forms of art cannot be documented in images?

* What other methods can we use to document or archive artistic endeavors?

* What economic regulating factors should influence images of art? Does the cost of an artwork equal in any way to the cost of its image?

* Is the cost of art photography today overinflated or underinflated? (Should I be getting paid more? :) )

* Does location correspond to the cost and value of image production?

* Does the value of an image lie more in what it depicts or its production?

— Elliott Cost