Now that I've moved to @tldr.nettime, maybe I should rehash my #introduction:
Hi everyone, my name is Roland, I am Berlin-based media and visual culture scholar interested in the history, theory, and aesthetics of #operativeimages. Among other stuff, I have written on the (pre-)history of #facialrecognition & its contemporary implications.
Currently, I am a researcher at the Bochum SFB »Virtual Lifeworlds«, working in a project on virtual #imagearchives. Besides that, am also interested in #imagegeneration, #imageforensics, and #urbansignage.

Yesterday in Stuttgart, I stumbled across this amazing painting by Alison Knowles, »Taxis–Busses« from 1960 (!). Years before Warhol and Rauschenberg, Knowles was already making silkscreen prints in the late 1950s. Sadly, »Taxis–Busses,« which combines #urbansignage with random combinatorics, appears to be one of the few surviving paintings from this period. She burned most of them after she got married: »It's always, too, the logistics of living. They took up half the space.«

Yesterday in Stuttgart, I stumbled across this amazing painting by Alison Knowles, »Taxis–Busses« from 1960 (!). Years before Warhol and Rauschenberg, Knowles was already making silkscreen prints in the late 1950s. Sadly, »Taxis–Busses,« which combines #urbansignage with random combinatorics, appears to be one of the few surviving paintings from this period. She burned most of them after she got married: »It's always, too, the logistics of living. They took up half the space.«