The Image. The Currency of the Soul Bent Fausing ”What is an Image”- International Conference, Copenhagen April 9-10, 2015.

The Image.The Currency of the

Soul

Bent Fausing”What is an Image”- International Conference, Copenhagen April 9-

10, 2015

Images seen through the filters of…

the face

the self

the self-media

the affect

…what is an image

The first selfie, Peter Cornelius 1839.

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- Reflection: to bend back, to mirror, to think

- The Image-Consciousness

- Visualize onself into Being

- Visual Nickname

- Imageface

Theodor W. Adorno gettting ready for his mirror-image.

Another mirror-image.

Self-Image.

- A self-dublication

- We are both subject and object in the mirror-image

”Welcome to your world.” Time Magazine, December 26, 2006.

The Self-Images and Self-Media Development

The Self-Images and Self-Media development:

Renaissance, 1600 1839 1929 2006 2014 Mirror Photography, reproduction TV You Tube SelfieBook (printing) mechanical ind. 2.0, ‘You’, (Miniature) painting modernity digital ind. late modernity Focus on subject/individuality ->

I Image Myself

Ukranian MirrorProtest, February2014.

As in a Mirror

Life for an Image.Bangladesh 2013.A disaster in a clothing plant buried and killed many people. A manis searching for his wife, child, or relative, with this blurred photo.The man holding the image is touching destiny, It is a wish, a plea,for life instead of an image. He wantsto be able enter theImage, as it has entered him.

The Image Currency

The sensoric images or perceptual images (A. R. Damsio), are created and put together almost like pixels by all the senses of the body.

The image is the currency of the soul.

The body creates the images. Reality has been imaged and shaped, one might say, through our bodies and senses. We cannot comprehend it if we do not shape it into images, which we can sense and tell others about. Reality is too much to take in directly; therefore we must ritualize it and make it into images. It can only be transmitted and comprehended through all the different kinds of images we constantly create of it through the body – internal, external, concrete, abstract, as

sounds, as things we taste and touch, as affects etc. These elements constitute the material, which impressions from and about reality are made of.We pick up the world and form it through the images we shape and seek out. We go out into the world with our images and the world enters us through its images. The body is the meeting point and intermediate link for the images, which come to and from us. We are not only sensing subjects; we are constantly symbolizing and getting hold of our sense datum through images.

To see and sense is in itself a way of formulating. It is a need so great that we cannot stop it. The images must come out – in dreams, in concrete pictures, constructed or not, in phantasms, in sound images, in the metaphors of words, in bodily expressions, in sensations of textures, and in synaesthetic sensing. The world is perceived from the inside though the body and we have the possibility to look at it from the outside through the images, which are made from this material.

In the Beginning was Affect…and Images

Affect and images,rituals and ceremonies after the terrorist attack inCopenhagen, February2015.

The Force of the Image

What was, is. What is, was.

The force of the image is that we cannot enter them. They show our longings, lacks, memories and dreams, which we cannot enter. The their force.

Images are alive. They can enter us. Images want to be ‘kissed’, taken in, diguested…

"I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it.” (Andrei Tarkovskij)