In this work we want to
propose some suggestions about the changes occurred in the relationship
between image and reality with the advent and the spreading of digital
technologies. So we shall sketch two different schemes: one for
analogical image and one for digital image. Then we shall be able
to understand some important differences between them. Finally we
will observe that the ontological statute of analogical and digital
image is also reflected on our modality of interaction with them.
Firstly, analyzing Deleuze and his work about cinematographic image,
we can try to define a first theoretical model of the relationship
between analogical image and reality. Our proposal reminds
the Deleuze's one, despite some differences: it's peculiarity is
to be found in the separation of the ratio between image and reality
in two distinct logical moments (even though in ordinary life they
are always coexistent ).
In the first one, analogical image splits, reproduces and modulates
reality. In the second one , analogical image subsumes reality
in a semiotic system: it reorganizes the material produced in the
first moment through the enunciative strategies of the different
languages that use image like signification system (ie.: photography,
television, cinema).
This “double articulation” functions like a (Derrida's) difference
, even, in the mechanical sense of the term, like a differential
: we are able to think for every kind of image (from documentary
to video clip) different dosages of this two image's components:
from a maximum of indexical integrity associated with a minimum
of rhetoric, to a mirror situation, through a large number of different
shades.
Such double-level model allows to look at an old problem in a new
way: why images can, at the same time, lie and tell the truth, inform
and deceive us.
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