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Digital Art

Art Vs. Technolgy

Avant-Garde & Digital

Texts

  • disavowal of art’s auratic status
  • disclamation of the art object itself.
  • Art as event as opposed to an aesthetic experience
  • The merging of art with technology (the end of the separation between art and life)

Questions for Debate

Art

Ziarek; The work of Art in the age of its electronic mutability (2005)

Groys; From Imae to Image File – and Back: Art in the Age of Digitalization (2008)

  • Reflect and stage the technification of being (= critical reflective potential)
  • Allow us to reflect ontologically on different ´types´ of reality
  • technological techne vs. poietic techne (Heidegger)
  • Manipulation/ domination
  • Everything is real!
  • Everything is translatable as information

Dispostion

Video

  • How can we think of art as differentiated from technology? Where is the limit? Does digital art not disclose art as techne/technology?!
  • Can art manipulate or be political?
  • Should art be entertainment?

Case introduction: Life Writer, from Enter Action, by Sommerer & Mignonea

Art Vs. Entertainment

Originality

Art Vs. Entertainment

  • Art expose/reflect upon technology

  • Active/ intervention (interactors)
  • Concentration
  • (Contemplation)

  • Aura/not reproducible (original?) event
  • Interactive art: transformative, mutative and open work; success dependent on the inter-actors

  • Hidden technology

  • Passive/ affirmation(audience)
  • Uncritical consumption
  • (unreflected upon)

  • Loss of aura/ reproducible
  • Film: static, finished/closed work
  • Visual image icon
  • Visual manifestation
  • Copy (object) / original (event)

Loss of aura

Exhibition value

  • Invisible Image File
  • The Invisible God/Idea
  • Original

Lots of aura

Cult value

Concentration

control:

Viewer → work

Result:

Critical reflection

Distraction

control:

Viewer ← film

Result:

Mobilization

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