IMAGE STORAGE CONTAINERS
Gevaert Editions & ICA New York, 2023
Ostensibly as documentarian as his work on The Family of Man, Image Storage Containers (2012) does something closely related in intention to the latter and yet very different. On one level, it can be described as condensing, as Marie Muracciole has noted, two moments in the myth of photography as a “universal language”: the first involving The Family of Man as imperial project; the second, photography’s sheer technicity as a mechanical means of reproduction, with all its attendant connotations ofobjectivity and scientificity. Atop this interfolding of meanings one can discern two additional layers: the Image Storage Container as a kind of “thought experiment,” an auto-pedagogical exercise to schematize the human nervous system, and, a more polemical read, as a proposition about the present conditions for viewing photographs within today’s networked image regime—at a moment when computer technologies, themselves predicated upon neuroscience findings on human perception and cognition, have precipitated a mass transformation of psycho-social behavior.
Image Storage Containers
Jeff Weber
with contributions by Michael Baers
Co-published with:
Gevaert Editions, Brussels
Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg
Edited by Michele Walerich and Asger Taiaksev
Book, offset duotone printing, 112 p., 24 x 17.1 cm
Edition of 600 copies
ISBN: 978-99959-809-4-8
Price: 34.00 $
SERIAL GREY
Roma Publication 411
2021
Serial Grey is the publication for Jeff Weber‘s exhibition at Carré d‘Art, Nîmes. The four chapters of the book correspond to the four galleries of the exhibition. It starts with the Neural Networks, a series of large format grid-like photograms that establish an enigmatic dialogue with his photographic and archival practice. As counterpart to these photograms, the other end of the exhibition consists of black and white 35mm films. Some monochromatic animation films are projected together with short real life sequences.
The publication traces the conflicting forces of photography and film within his work, up to the point that, at the end, we rediscover the principles that constituted the abstract photograms at the beginning, transposed into the linearity of the medium of film.
With texts by Marie Muracciole and Jean-François Chevrier.
Photographs & Idea: Jeff Weber
Design: Joris Kritis
Publisher: Roma Publications, Amsterdam (www.romapublications.org)
Distribution: Idea Books, Amsterdam (www.ideabooks.nl)
ISBN 978-94-6446-000-1
192 p, ills bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, english & french
© 2021 Jeff Weber and authors
Book Presentation at After 8 Books, Paris
13 November 2021, 6pm
Marie Muracciole will discuss his practice with Weber, and the role of Weber‘s previous book An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology / Kunsthalle Leipzig, that relied on the experience of an "art space", and relates to what she calls a praxis, in the Aristotelian sense of the word, in which a subject transforms himself by means of his acts.
AN ATTEMPT AT A PERSONAL EPISTEMOLOGY / KUNSTHALLE LEIPZIG
Roma Publication 343
2018
"The Kunsthalle Leipzig was a long-term project in the form of an art space (2014-2017). I started in 2013 by renovating a former apartment of an abandoned 19th century building in Leipzig and transformed it into a gallery space. The gallery functioned as a conceptual framework to invite artist collaborators to produce and show (new) work, as well as to expand my own artistic practice and open it up to the curatorial. Here, I was able to work intimately with the artists, in part by photographing their process with particular consideration of the conceptual context of their project. As a project, the Kunsthalle emerged from, and relies on the principles of a group of former works of mine: Anticipative Images (2009-2012), but most and foreall on the structural archive: Attempt At A Personal Epistemology."
With contributions by Robert Beavers, Marie-France Rafael, Michael Baers, and Indre Klimaite.
Roma Publication 343
Photographs & Idea: Jeff Weber
Texts by Marie-France Rafael, Michael Bears and Robert Beavers
Design: Phil Baber
Publisher: Roma Publications (www.romapublications.org)
Distribution: Idea Books, Amsterdam (www.ideabooks.nl)
ISBN 9789492811387
Idea Code 18706
522 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 19 cm, pb, English
