Decoupling and context in new media art
Supervisor(es): Casinelli, Alvaro - Robledo Amoza, Franco Rafael
Resumen:
This dissertation presents a novel characterization of new media art, centered on media appropriation: the dialectal insertion of technological knowledge into the art practice. The thesis identifies some defining characteristics of new media art’s language, and indicates the defining role that explicitation plays. While media appropriation is not necessarily linked to the digital realm, it provides a natural substratum for it and so this thesis analyzes some aspects of the relationship between art and technology, where it introduces the user–programmer continuum and the perceptual cloud, a new paradigm of human–computer interaction that emerges from the functional and geographical decoupling of the computational and perceptual layers of interactive systems. Next, it analyzes the sociopolitical inscription of new media art, integrating the economic and political contexts of its practice into the analysis and providing a new reflection on new media art production from the geopolitical periphery. This thesis is proposed as a hybrid research–practice. A selected subset of the artworks created are presented and analyzed within the dissertation’s conceptual framework.
Esta disertación presenta una nueva caracterización del new media art, centrada en la apropiación de los medios, es decir, en la inserción dialéctica de conocimiento tecnológico dentro de la práctica artística. La tesis identifica algunas características definitorias del lenguaje del new media art, e identifica el rol fundamental que la explicitación juega. Aunque la apropiación de los medios no está necesariamente unida a lo digital, éste provee un substrato natural para ella. Por ello, esta tesis analiza algunos aspectos entre el arte y la tecnología digital, introduciendo el continuo usuario\2013programador y la nube perceptual, un nuevo paradigma de interacción humano\2013computadora que emerge del desacople funcional y geográfico de las capas computacionales y perceptuales de los sistemas interactivos. A continuación, se analiza la inscripción sociopolítica del new media art, integrando los contextos económico y político, proveyendo una nueva reflexión acerca de la producción artística desde la periferia geopolítica. Esta tesis se propone como un híbrido investigación\2013producción. Un subconjunto seleccionado de las obras creadas durante el programa son presentadas y analizadas desde el marco conceptual de la disertación.
2014 | |
Art New media art Interactive art HCI Human-computer interaction Computer music Neo-colonial theory Politics Cognitive capitalism Arte Arte y nuevos medios Arte interactivo Interacción persona-computadora IPC Música por computadora Teoría neocolonial Política Capitalismo cognitivo |
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Universidad de la República | |
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/2908 | |
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Licencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial – Sin Derivadas (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
Sumario: | This dissertation presents a novel characterization of new media art, centered on media appropriation: the dialectal insertion of technological knowledge into the art practice. The thesis identifies some defining characteristics of new media art’s language, and indicates the defining role that explicitation plays. While media appropriation is not necessarily linked to the digital realm, it provides a natural substratum for it and so this thesis analyzes some aspects of the relationship between art and technology, where it introduces the user–programmer continuum and the perceptual cloud, a new paradigm of human–computer interaction that emerges from the functional and geographical decoupling of the computational and perceptual layers of interactive systems. Next, it analyzes the sociopolitical inscription of new media art, integrating the economic and political contexts of its practice into the analysis and providing a new reflection on new media art production from the geopolitical periphery. This thesis is proposed as a hybrid research–practice. A selected subset of the artworks created are presented and analyzed within the dissertation’s conceptual framework. |
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