Janet Bruesselbach has produced a series of portraits via various online chat platforms (google connect, skype etc). I love the way these images turn the ephemerality of digital talk into something fixed and permanent; capturing these moments that are so fleeting. At the same time, to me her work insists upon the permanence of our digital world, reminding us that 'moments' online have lives that long exceed our own, stored, searchable and retrievable in an historically unprecedented way. As such, these images can be understood not only as images of people, but as portraits of the ghosts in the machine.
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