After The Tunnel: on changing ontology and ethology of the emerging art-subject: After The Tunnel: on changing ontology and ethology of the emerging art-subject
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
During ISEA1995, the Tunnel Under the Atlantic presented an artwork that Maurice Benayoun conceived at the time as a manifesto supporting virtuality as a medium. 25 years later, we propose a new understanding of the work and its emergence along with a reconfiguration of the ontological status of contemporary media art. Rather than mere object, as defined by normalized code of representation, the artwork can now be characterized as a subject with operational sensitivities that allow complex reactive behaviors. Real-Time processing of information has played a major role in this mutation. Virtuality – understood as design of the potentialities of the work – sensors and other input devices keeping the work aware of the existence of its ‘public’ and environment seem to have converted the interactive artwork into a sentient entity, empowered with perceptive functionalities and new cognitive capacities: memory, artificial intelligence, and intentionality. This transductive process leading to the evolution of the original art-object into the art-subject announces an expansion of what is considered the artwork’s milieu and potentiality. More recent works of Benayoun help us to envision the next steps in this evolution: opening the ontology of art further towards its subjective capacities and possible dynamic implications in society.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | ISEA2020 Montreal Proceedings |
Antal sider | 11 |
Publikationsdato | okt. 2020 |
Sider | 29-40 |
ISBN (Elektronisk) | 978-2-9816413-2-8 |
Status | Udgivet - okt. 2020 |
ID: 280053118