Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Proj... more Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Project. 5 May 201
Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Proj... more Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Project. 5 May 201
Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics is and has been a strongly influential work since the F... more Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics is and has been a strongly influential work since the French original was first published in 1998 (its English translation appearing in 2002). In its aftermath, opinions about audience participation in art have also been very polarized among critics and artists. Some of its critics include the art collective Claire Fontaine (2005), Hal Foster (2006:194) who claims that there is only a thin veneer between participation as art and participation as an everyday social activity, and Marc James Léger who, in a more recent comment on participation and “dialogical aesthetics”, points out the problem that arises when the neoliberal model of democratic participation overwrites a critically inclined attempt to re-build community (2012:50)[i]. Similarly Markus Miessen (2010) raises the point that participation itself (hereunder also actions initiated by artists) allows political leaders to delay decisions and evade responsibilities for decisions at whic...
Why photograph mushrooms? Mushrooms can absorb toxin and survive in a toxic environment. Similarl... more Why photograph mushrooms? Mushrooms can absorb toxin and survive in a toxic environment. Similarly, the photographic apparatus records scenes of violence and trauma. Both mushrooms and photography share seemingly receptive characteristics in the ecology of life. Mycelium absorbs energy from their environment to survive and photography absorbs its
This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic ex... more This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic experiences. Slow violence in the environment is imperceptible and requires techniques of translating it into visual and sonic experiences. In the process, environmental data is used as a currency for translation. Shoshana Zuboff in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism discusses data collection is integral to a surveillance society, yet, data, when given back to citizens, can empower them, and in such a scenario, artists can play a crucial role. By discussing examples of contemporary artworks, the paper observes how ecological situations are captured as data and translated into affective experiences. Environmental data, however, is used also to speculate, predict, and even determine potential scenarios to happen in the future, as in the case of the weather forecast, and used to eliminate uncertainties. This paper argues that art helps make environmental data widely accessible, and suggests an alternative passage from predetermined scenarios speculated from data collection.
Separate landscape is a research that combines a theory and practice through the examination of &... more Separate landscape is a research that combines a theory and practice through the examination of 'non-place'. Non-places such as airports, waiting lounges, car parks, shopping malls have been defined as places which lack a sense of history, social relations, and identity.
Issue No. 25, September 2021 – Main Topic: Acoustic and Visual Ecology of Damaged Planet, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 2021
This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic ex... more This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic experiences. Slow violence in the environment is imperceptible and requires techniques of translating it into visual and sonic experiences. In the process, environmental data is used as a currency for translation. Shoshana Zuboff in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism discusses data collection is integral to a surveillance society, yet, data, when given back to citizens, can empower them, and in such a scenario, artists can play a crucial role. By discussing examples of contemporary artworks, the paper observes how ecological situations are captured as data and translated into affective experiences. Environmental data, however, is used also to speculate, predict, and even determine potential scenarios to happen in the future, as in the case of the weather forecast, and used to eliminate uncertainties. This paper argues that art helps make environmental data widely accessible, and suggests an alternative passage from predetermined scenarios speculated from data collection.
Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The chapter observes the distinction between the mechanical and the machinic, and moves beyond th... more The chapter observes the distinction between the mechanical and the machinic, and moves beyond the metaphors of android (Metropolis), or cyborg (Donna Haraway), and considers how the machinic has brought new cognitive patterns for human subjects to interact with their environment and others. Artists' dislocation from the central agent of production has opened passages for the posthuman mode of production. Consequently, the machine has become an integral part of artwork and of the artist. Contrary to this development, some artists retain the machine's materiality as a form of Other. The chapter argues that the machine remains as a form of externalization of the Other within the human subject.
Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Proj... more Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Project. 5 May 201
Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Proj... more Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Project. 5 May 201
Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics is and has been a strongly influential work since the F... more Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics is and has been a strongly influential work since the French original was first published in 1998 (its English translation appearing in 2002). In its aftermath, opinions about audience participation in art have also been very polarized among critics and artists. Some of its critics include the art collective Claire Fontaine (2005), Hal Foster (2006:194) who claims that there is only a thin veneer between participation as art and participation as an everyday social activity, and Marc James Léger who, in a more recent comment on participation and “dialogical aesthetics”, points out the problem that arises when the neoliberal model of democratic participation overwrites a critically inclined attempt to re-build community (2012:50)[i]. Similarly Markus Miessen (2010) raises the point that participation itself (hereunder also actions initiated by artists) allows political leaders to delay decisions and evade responsibilities for decisions at whic...
Why photograph mushrooms? Mushrooms can absorb toxin and survive in a toxic environment. Similarl... more Why photograph mushrooms? Mushrooms can absorb toxin and survive in a toxic environment. Similarly, the photographic apparatus records scenes of violence and trauma. Both mushrooms and photography share seemingly receptive characteristics in the ecology of life. Mycelium absorbs energy from their environment to survive and photography absorbs its
This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic ex... more This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic experiences. Slow violence in the environment is imperceptible and requires techniques of translating it into visual and sonic experiences. In the process, environmental data is used as a currency for translation. Shoshana Zuboff in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism discusses data collection is integral to a surveillance society, yet, data, when given back to citizens, can empower them, and in such a scenario, artists can play a crucial role. By discussing examples of contemporary artworks, the paper observes how ecological situations are captured as data and translated into affective experiences. Environmental data, however, is used also to speculate, predict, and even determine potential scenarios to happen in the future, as in the case of the weather forecast, and used to eliminate uncertainties. This paper argues that art helps make environmental data widely accessible, and suggests an alternative passage from predetermined scenarios speculated from data collection.
Separate landscape is a research that combines a theory and practice through the examination of &... more Separate landscape is a research that combines a theory and practice through the examination of 'non-place'. Non-places such as airports, waiting lounges, car parks, shopping malls have been defined as places which lack a sense of history, social relations, and identity.
Issue No. 25, September 2021 – Main Topic: Acoustic and Visual Ecology of Damaged Planet, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 2021
This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic ex... more This paper explores the potentiality of environmental data translation into affective artistic experiences. Slow violence in the environment is imperceptible and requires techniques of translating it into visual and sonic experiences. In the process, environmental data is used as a currency for translation. Shoshana Zuboff in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism discusses data collection is integral to a surveillance society, yet, data, when given back to citizens, can empower them, and in such a scenario, artists can play a crucial role. By discussing examples of contemporary artworks, the paper observes how ecological situations are captured as data and translated into affective experiences. Environmental data, however, is used also to speculate, predict, and even determine potential scenarios to happen in the future, as in the case of the weather forecast, and used to eliminate uncertainties. This paper argues that art helps make environmental data widely accessible, and suggests an alternative passage from predetermined scenarios speculated from data collection.
Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The chapter observes the distinction between the mechanical and the machinic, and moves beyond th... more The chapter observes the distinction between the mechanical and the machinic, and moves beyond the metaphors of android (Metropolis), or cyborg (Donna Haraway), and considers how the machinic has brought new cognitive patterns for human subjects to interact with their environment and others. Artists' dislocation from the central agent of production has opened passages for the posthuman mode of production. Consequently, the machine has become an integral part of artwork and of the artist. Contrary to this development, some artists retain the machine's materiality as a form of Other. The chapter argues that the machine remains as a form of externalization of the Other within the human subject.
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