Sylvia Grace Borda | Artist Website
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  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
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    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020-21
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
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    • Request a lecture
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  • Exhibition History
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    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Preplanning design
    • House as Social Agent
    • Generous Architecture
  • Digital Art
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This is not a camera
Stereo-viewer images
C-41 digital photographs | 2013

Sylvia has photographed film cameras that she owns with the intention of utilizing 'advertising' conventions as found on online sales sites such as e-Bay.  Like many online sale sites, her product image is profiled in recto, verso, and side views. Whilst adopting these image conventions to guide the artwork, Sylvia's camera photos have been produced as diptych ('stereo') image cards for gallery visitors.

By playing with the diptych arrangement, the images do not merely become a snapshot of a particular viewpoint, for instance a 'camera front,' but they transform into 3D virtual forms when examined through a stereo-viewer.

The project's title conceptually challenges the gallery visitor both in terms of what is represented and what is not, and importantly what is experienced. In producing a 'virtualized' cameras series, the artwork does not reside as one would anticipate; that is simply as mere artifacts of sales images, but rather they become independent multi-dimensional artworks to explore as contemporary artifacts.

Project reviews
2014
Travis, Rebecca. “Sylvia Grace Borda: Camera Histories” in Reviews: Photomonitor, UK. January 27, 2014
http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2014/01/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/

“Art in Scotland TV channel feature: Sylvia Grace Borda Camera Histories – Artist interview” produced by Summerhall TV, Dec 29, 2013 http://www.artinscotland.tv/2013/sylvia-grace-borda-camera-histories/

Artist video interview (December 5, 2013) with Christiane Monarchi, editor of PhotoMonitor Magazine about 'Cameras and Watercolour sunset' series and other works presented in the exhibition 'Camera Histories' presented at Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (November 23, 2013 - February 2, 2014).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jo7lxuQ-KU
 

Picture
Installation photograph taken by Iseult Timmermans, Street Level Gallery 2013
  • Mise en Scene
    • Mise en Scene
  • Farm Work
  • Farm Tableaux - Google Street View
  • Aerial Fields
  • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2020-21
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2017-19
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2013-14
    • Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets 2010-12
  • Interrogations of a Camera
  • This is not a camera
  • Impressions
  • Seeing Technologies
  • Northern Ireland
    • Coming to the Table
    • Orchards
  • Kissing Project
  • Past Projects
    • Public Art Commission: Number 4 Pump Station
    • Community Engagement: Seeing Across Boundaries
    • Public Art Commission: Cuneo Camera Obscura
  • Artist Bio
    • Artist Bio
    • Teaching Practice
    • Public Speaking
    • Request a lecture
    • Purchasing Art
  • Exhibition History
    • Exhibition History
    • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News
  • Camera Histories
  • Momento Mori
  • Stereoworks
    • Two if not Three
    • Aura
    • Viewpoints
    • This is not a camera
  • re-COLLECT-ing
  • EK Modernism
    • EK Modernism series
    • Project legacies
    • Canada series
  • A Holiday in Glenrothes
  • Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC
  • This one's for the farmer
  • Social engagement
  • Lumsden Biscuit
    • Social Enterprise
    • Edible photograph
  • What are you doing Richmond
  • Snow Cameras
  • Hunting Cameras
  • Architecture
    • Architecture
    • Preplanning design
    • House as Social Agent
    • Generous Architecture
  • Digital Art
  • Shifting Perspectives Book