NEW COMPLEXITIES: Photography in Cyberspace

Abstract

The aim of this paper, guided by Jorge Albuquerque Vieira’s ideas of systemic permanence (2008) and Arlindo Machado’s solid cores and areas of intersection (2010), is to show that photography, in its attempt to endure, migrates to cyberspace (with the Internet as the main environment) transforming – in relation to other systems – into new complexities. We adopt here the systemic permanence cited by Vieira and his "crisis of stability" process as key parameters of the survival of the photographic system.