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MKE Doktori Iskola program
2019. szeptember 24. kedd

11.30-13.00: Selfie and self-surveillance
Dr. Ana Peraica kurátor, kritikus angol nyelvž el‘adása
The appearance of historic self-portrait genre 
was closely tied to technology of production of 
mirrors. These small reflective glasses evolved 
from concave, over convex to finally become flat 
mirror, also determining the historic styles of 
self-portraiture. Among them, the oldest, concave 
one is still being used for the larger space 
surveillance.
Further development mirror-based technologies, 
photography is, has also initiated various 
portrait analysis, serving for the control of 
prisoners via ID cards, over sorting of such 
images in larger archives, in order to 
distinguish various layers of society according 
their wealth, race or gender.
Contemporary selfie phenomena is framed by both 
of these surveillance aspects; while form one 
side enhancing the user to see behind own back in 
the control-type of mirror, it is also providing 
an image that can be analysed and put in the 
database, where serving various purposes. 
Voluntarily produced, selfie becomes a genre of 
self-surveillance.

Dr Ana Peraica's (HR) recent books include The 
Age of Total Images (Institute of Network 
Cultures, Amsterdam, in print), Fotografija kao 
dokaz (Multimedijalni institute, Zagreb, 2018), 
Culture of the Selfie (Institute of Networked 
Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017). Focus of her work 
falls in media arts, more precisely post-digital 
photography. She currently is visiting researcher 
at the Department for Image Science, Danube 
University Krems (AT) and visiting fellow at 
History department, Central European University 
in Budapest (HU).
13.00-14.00: ebédszünet