포렌식 아키텍처와 디지털 시대 다큐멘터리 작업: 하이브리드 액티비즘, 다큐멘터리 불확정성, 대항시각성

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Forensic Architecture, a multidisciplinary research group led by architect and theorist Eyal Weizman, has employed architectural techniques and digital technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world. This paper examines Forensic Architecture’s video documentations not simply in terms of a recent remarkable case of the ‘documentary turn’ in contemporary art, but also in terms of the practice that has expanded documentary cinema’s political, aesthetic, and technical possibilities. In so doing, it argues that the group’s practice is a hybrid activist documentary practice that creatively combines existing modes of documentary film, and that its documentations based on various digital manipulations aim to construct a countervisuality that copes with the crisis of the evidentiary value of the photographic image that caused the idea of ‘documentary uncertainty’, and with a new governmentality of truth and fact that is increasingly afforded by new digital vision machines.

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