Media Art

Photography as Media Art

Photography, in my practice, is not approached solely as image-making, but as a form of media art concerned with mediation, perception, and the conditions of visibility.

Media art has long been understood not by its technological novelty, but by its critical engagement with media as a system. As Rosalind Krauss argues in A Voyage on the North Sea, contemporary art operates in a “post-medium condition,” where the medium is no longer a fixed category but a conceptual framework. Within this condition, photography functions not merely as a representational tool, but as a site where visuality, temporality, and technological mediation intersect.

Similarly, Vilém Flusser characterizes photography as a technical image—an image produced by apparatuses that embed cultural, political, and epistemological programs. From this perspective, photography is inherently a media practice: it reflects not only what is seen, but how seeing itself is structured by devices, interfaces, and systems of control.

My photographic work engages with these questions by focusing on the relationship between image and screen, presence and mediation. Rather than treating photographs as isolated aesthetic objects, I approach them as fragments within a broader media environment—images shaped by digital circulation, screen-based viewing, and contemporary modes of attention.

This understanding aligns with media artists such as Hito Steyerl, who describes images today as “poor images”—compressed, circulated, and transformed across networks. Photography, in this context, becomes a dynamic and unstable medium, inseparable from its technological and cultural conditions.

Therefore, my photographic practice situates itself within media art not through technological spectacle, but through critical attention to mediation itself: how images are produced, viewed, transmitted, and embedded within contemporary visual culture.

References

Krauss, Rosalind. A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition

Flusser, Vilém. Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Steyerl, Hito. In Defense of the Poor Image