About
About Robbie Cooper;
I’m a photographer and video artist, mostly interested in identity and the media. I was born in 1969, brought up in the UK and Kenya, and now live in New York.
Previous work;
My previous work includes a three year study of online identity called “Alter Ego”- which consists of diptychs of people who use virtual worlds and the avatars that they create to interact with others online. Before that I was a photojournalist, working for magazines around the world.
About “Immersion”;
Immersion is a project that records video of people “through the screen” as they play games, use the internet and watch TV. There’s three of us involved in the actual production of the footage- Andrew Wiggins is a camera man based in London, whilst Charly Smith is a First Assistant Director, also based in London. In 2010 we’ll be working with the Media Center at Bournemouth University, on an 18 month study called “War and Leisure”, of teenagers and war in the media. Using the Facial Action Coding System, developed by Paul Ekman, we’ll be analysing the reactions of teenagers to war in video games, movies, news footage, documentaries and online video. Outside of this study we’re also filming people consuming a range of media- everything from the shopping channel, porn, sports, to programming created for babies.
About this blog;
This is a fairly random collection of material that I think is interesting or inspiring and relates, however vaguely, to the project. As well as news, the occasional rant, and photography or art-related musings.
