Hito Steryl

I liked this reading by Hito Steryl regarding the actual nature of poor image. This can be through distribution or mass production. It can end up affecting the artist and their image of them self. I thought this excerpt was interesting. "The poor image has been uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted, and reedited. It transforms quality into accessibility, exhibition value into cult value, films into clips, contemplation into distraction. The image is liberated from the vaults of cinemas and archives and thrust into digital uncertainty, at the expense of its own substance. The poor image tends towards abstraction: it is a visual idea in its very becoming."