Confusion of subjects and objects in the field of digital images

Confusión de los sujetos y objetos en el campo de las imágenes digitales

Confusão de sujeitos e objetos no campo das imagens digitais

Duarte, Ezequiel Iván
Detalles Bibliográficos
2024
communication theory
representation
expression
digital image
simulation
teoría de la comunicación
representación
expresión
imagen digital
simulación
teoria da comunicação
representação
expressão
imagem digital
simulação
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Universidad Católica del Uruguay
LIBERI
https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/3105
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Resumen:
Sumario:The aim of this article is to analyze how digital technologies imply the confusion of subjects and objects in the field of images. It starts from the distinction made by Lucien Sfez between representative and expressive communication, and how there is a tendency towards their confusion in a form that the author called "tautism". The thesis argued is that this tautism —a concept which we consider problematic— is currently a con-fusion of subjects and objects in the field of digital images. Thus, images are considered as third parties that mediate between subjects and objects, generating continuity between them, but without confusing them. Subsequently, expanded cinema, 3D scanning, synthetic images, and the discrete architecture of digital images themselves are analyzed and gathered under the notion of simulation. It is concluded that no image can exist on its own without its connection to subjects and objects, although the digital image tends to conceal it.