Data in the Sky explores the relationship between reality and photographic production in image-making. Using various techniques unique to digital photography, I alter images of the sky, actively creating new photographic objects to challenge viewers' perceptions of the medium. The intangible sky is information that is accessible through the camera and then translated into data. The captured data is rewritten into code and pixels that create the image. Within the work, alterations are made concerning characteristics of the photographic medium: form, language, material, digital code, and pixels. Through editing programs and production-based machines, the image can become a tangible object that can vary in appearance and form.
Utilizing data within RAW files, 3D modeling, tools present in editing programs, and the photographic medium's materiality, I explore the breadth of outcomes as a "photographic object." The ubiquity of digital images in contemporary culture has served to expand the definition of photography. My goal with this process is to find where photographic theory and physical art objects intersect. I accomplish this by experimenting with digital capture, digital manipulation, and technological production at all levels of image creation. These pieces are constructed to be explored and questioned as photographs.
