Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image

This article reminded me of a project I did in one of my foundation art classes freshamn year at MCAD. The project was to create 10 symbols that represented emotions, then the next project was to create 10 simplifications of those symbols using enlarged areas of the symbol we originally designed, essentially cropping the image down to a more essential form. The person who's project I remember the most did this with a Xerox machine, and he made copy after copy after copy of each of his original symbols, enlarging the image each time he made a copy. Eventually what he turned in were these elaborate but stark organic images of essentially static and dust, however they were still children of the original symbol.