J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Danielle Ezzo

“This book takes place in the fluid distance between the writer and her subject”

— Jenn Shapland

Episode #70 , Summary

If Not Here, Then Where? presents a re-narration of public access artifacts, untethered from their original cultural constructs — offering a prismatic view of authorship and representation.

Episode Notes:

Danielle Ezzo is a new media artist, pioneering the lossy space of photography by utilizing digitized artifacts sourced from the open-access archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this beguiling book Ezzo animates the ability of photography to simultaneously communicate and mediate — opening an exploration into the medium and the messaging. Her extensive sleuthing raised questions and unearthed insights into how history is shaped and its potential power to propagate into the future.

In this conversation Danielle discusses, among other things: