«Poor images» – bad images?

Digital images are ubiquitous. We produce and consume them like never before. With the advent of internet-enabled mobile devices, the high-quality rich image has transformed into the low-resolution digital copy, which circulates, is edited, and is multiplied on the web. Building on the concept of the poor image, coined by artist Hito Steyerl in 2009, Helena Schmidt analyzes post-digital contemporary images regarding their use, reflection, and potential in art education. The multi-perspective history of development from the poor image to poor images thus provides fertile ground for a future-oriented didactics of digitality.

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