"I imagine the scrapings of black and of white to be the same. A kind of grey."
Greyscrapes (LM) is a work of art in the age of the digital press. A deviant chapter of a (photo) graphic thesis which reflects an accumulated education as a Master's student in the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York University in Toronto, Canada.
Greyscrapes (LM) responds to courses such as: Experimental Media, Contemporary Theory in the Visual Arts, Photographic Practice, Narrative Theory, Cultural and Communication studies, Theoretical Perspectives in Media and Culture, and Visual Culture.
An experimental (photo) graphic novella, this urban-noir visually negotiates the subject-object tension of social realities through the collage/montage of a hyperreal perspectivist's memories of self, time, and space(s). As a conceptual piece, the book challenges institutionalized 'artworld' ritual by suggesting a mass medium (book) might be the future's first and final exhibition space.
About the Author
Laura Moses
lauramoses
Toronto, Ontario
Laura Moses, 25, is an MA candidate in the Joint Program in Communication and Culture through Ryerson & York University in Toronto, Canada. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Journalism and Film Studies (’06) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include contemporary theory in the visual arts, art-based research, history of image making technologies, image + text relations, photography/new media practice, and DIY and visual culture.
She can be reached at laura.moses@ryerson.ca
or
laura.moses@gmail.com
Publish Date May 12, 2008
Dimensions Standard Portrait 72 pgs
Standard Paper
Category Comics & Graphic Novels
Tags graphic novella, urban noir, self- portrait, avant garde, digital art, art book, xerox aesthetic, hyperreal perspectivism, death of the author, monochrome revival, visual culture, critical studies, faux zine, auto-ethnography, photo-collage, photo-montage, experimental, comic, postcyberpunk
MyTwoYears says
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
This book is neat and its price is Marxist. Grouch Marxist.
posted at 01:13pm Aug 26 PST