A Possible Framework for Digital Visuality.

Abstract

With the ongoing penetration of digital technologies and tools across the world, the act of conducting visual research increasingly entails a capacity to incorporate a broader horizon characterised by multimodality and multisensoriality, by algorithmic and automated logics and importantly by new possibilities for collaboration. Such an expanded terrain requires an expanded ethnographic approach and also a grounded rethinking of what images (the key tools at our disposal) are, mean and do. Images today embrace a new role as multimodal, multi-sensory and multi-perspectival producers of relations, of material, spatial and temporal engagements with the world that surrounds them. Indirectly commenting upon the papers that make up this special issue, the present paper aims to offer some theoretical and methodological guidelines on how to address, understand and use the terrain of contemporary digital visual practices.