OBANUBI JOSEPH : Genealogy, Trajectory, Globalization, Translation, Image making and Transition
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Family/Genealogy
Migration/Transition
Bi-lingual
Translation/Understanding/
Interpretation
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Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With an upper population estimate of 21 million, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.
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Pivotal moment
- The internet / 2000s
The history of Internet in Nigeria started with the provision of limited E-mail service in 1991, and in July 1995 provision of the internet service began at the computer science department of College of Technology though the (Nigeria postal service (NIPOST)).
In 1998, there was more access to the internet as the government granted licenses to GSM (Global system for mobile communications) telecommunication companies in 2001 which led to an increase in internet connectivity, towards the end of 2003 Nigeria about 750,000 active internet users.
SOURCE : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Nigeria#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20Internet%20in,College%20of%20Technology%20through%20the%20(
https://innovative.ng/detailed-history-of-internet-in-nigeria/
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(in)Formal Schooling/Experience
Graphic Design +
Photography + Art direction
IMAGE MAKING PRACTICE
key concepts>>>>
- Transition/Migration ; lived experiences in places/spaces /geographies - central to my creative practice. This shapes Idea formation, perspective and allows for dialogue/interrogation/questioning.
- Photography: a medium to journal and record the ever changing nature of things/places/ideas. Analogous to aspects of memory. Prominent tool for image making.
- Image making involves going from a point of idea/knowledge to translation using tools/techniques
- Context: necessary knowledge to understand/interpret/convey Idea/emotions/message.
- Translation: using a tool/medium : (photo, text, moving images, line of code e.t.c) to describe essentially
- Image making and storytelling can be used interchangeably within my practice as one foregrounds the use of images while the other does not necessarily.
- Image: (re)presentation of something/idea/ at the most basic level. (visually, metaphorically, e.t.c)
- Practice as a bricolage, reconstructing things/ideas from original context and making alternative meanings/complication/interrogations with them.
- Identity, fantasy, speculation, transition, in between within the context of globalization
- My process acknowledges the context of ideas/things/for and in alternative manner in which the images are reconstructed.
