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# Project Description Digital, Joy Division, Released December 1978... Tobias Futers Summary Final work Tobias Futers is a London-based artist exploring themes of digital melancholia, ‘poor imagery', and the role of communication within art. He produces drawings, and paintings, as well as photography. Tobias Futers is a London-based artist exploring themes of digital melancholia, ‘poor image... College Chelsea College of Arts Course BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation year 2025 My work engages with the role of communication within art. Contextualised by proposals for transient forms of art production such as Hito Steyerl’s “In Defence of The Poor Image” and Ursula K.le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”, my work aims to be wholly insecure and made functional through viewer interaction. I am currently working through a series of ‘pixel’ drawings which I have been displaying slightly compressed between long wooden planks. Walter Benjamin considers the ‘aura’ of an image to be depleted through its repetition. If digital imagery, as described by Hito Steyerl, is fundamentally a copy (i.e. something repeated), then we can consider that which inherits culture through the digital to be ‘aura-less. These drawings present pixelated sentences such as “I wish I knew what it takes” as a way of representing a certain pervading, contemporary sense of illegitimacy. Final work Digital, Joy Division, Released December 1978 + There’s a women inside my soul, Yoko Ono, Released January 1973 + Truffles Pencil on paper, wooden planks, nails So Close Pencil on paper, Transformer toy Red as a toddler Oil on Canvas Share this project My work engages with the role of communication within art. Contextualised by proposals for transient forms of art production such as Hito Steyerl’s “In Defence of The Poor Image” and Ursula K.le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”, my work aims to be wholly insecure and mad... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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