Away Game

Posted: December 18th, 2009 | Filed under: Mobilities at the Interface |

The nice folks over at Vague Terrain, one of my favorite blogs, have kindly opened up their ranks to the likes of me. I’ll be posting periodically over there as well for the time being. The first series I proposed to them was on the Standard Test Subjects of computer graphics research - something that ought to be known outside of academic research, as part of our collective media history. For the first installment, I took a VERY brief look at the infamous “Lena” image, a cropped Playboy centerfold shot that has been used for years as a subject for demonstrating new digital imaging techniques. One could write plenty on that crazy story, the gender politics at work. For now, I’m just looking to make the story more known.

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