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PhD Courses by Jacob Wamberg
PhD course on operative images (widely construed) to take place at Humboldt University Berlin, 1-... more PhD course on operative images (widely construed) to take place at Humboldt University Berlin, 1-3 March 2017. Organized by: Inge Hinterwaldner, Jacob Wamberg and Aud Sissel Hoel. Key note speakers: Horst Bredekamp, Adrian MacKenzie and Martina Merz.
Marshall McLuhan famously claimed that media are “extensions of man”. More specifically, they cou... more Marshall McLuhan famously claimed that media are “extensions of man”. More specifically, they could be seen as prostheses of the human sensorium and its superstructure in the brain. As has become apparent in the last decades, technological extensions do not merely involve outward projections of pre-given human subjectivities. Instead, both environments and subjectivities are co-shaped through their anchorage in media. Furthermore, media amplify and co-ordinate sense experience and memories far beyond the capacities of the sensorium in its “naked” state. This transdisciplinary PhD course, which is jointly organized by Aarhus University and NTNU, focuses on artworks and aesthetic theories that examine the interaction between the human sensorium and its prostheses. Key questions include: How are the senses reconfigured, distributed and synaesthetically related in different media? Does art still have special responsibilities and capabilities to foreground sensory dimensions that tend to be downplayed by standardized media? Do new media technologies involve a rupture in human sensoria compared to traditional media? If the answer is yes, has this rupture been sufficiently explored by contemporary artists? Do new media technologies and their exploration in avant-garde art enable new alliances between affective and cognitive reactions?
Time and place: PhD course 20-22 January 2016, Aarhus University.
Speakers: Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin University of the Arts), Ina Blom (University of Oslo) and Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University)
Deadline for registration: 1 December 2015
Papers by Jacob Wamberg
European Review, 2016
The posthuman summons up a complex of both tangible challenges for humanity and a potential shift... more The posthuman summons up a complex of both tangible challenges for humanity and a potential shift to a larger, more comprehensive historical perspective on humankind. In this article we will first examine the posthuman in relation to the macro-historical framework of the Anthropocene. Adopting key notions from complexity theory, we argue that the earlier counter-figures of environmental catastrophe (Anthropocene entropy) and corporeal enhancement (transhuman negentropy) should be juxtaposed and blended. Furthermore, we argue for the relevance of a comprehensive aesthetical perspective in a discussion of posthuman challenges. Whereas popular visual culture and many novels illustrate posthuman dilemmas (e.g. the superhero’s oscillation between superhuman and human) in a respect for humanist naturalist norms, avant-garde art performs a posthuman alienation of the earlier negentropic centres of art, a problematization of the human body and mind, that is structurally equivalent to the en...
I “Apocalypse now” skriver Jacob Wamberg om telenærvær, cyborgs, medier og kunst. Ifølge Wamberg ... more I “Apocalypse now” skriver Jacob Wamberg om telenærvær, cyborgs, medier og kunst. Ifølge Wamberg medfører de nye digitale teknologier, at kunsten træderind i virkeligheden ved ikke blot at simulere, men også udvise funktionelle egenskaber, som normalt ikke forbindes med æstetiske virkemidler
Books by Jacob Wamberg
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](This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Weste... more This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them.
Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of inno... more Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book argues that since 1900 we have experienced a renewed negotiation of the convergent triangle of art, technology and nature, analysing its shifting constellations in post-medieval times. Through this negotiation, art becomes truly complementary to technology in understanding nature's agencies and may gain an important role in adjusting technology's present utilitarian hegemony.
PhD course on operative images (widely construed) to take place at Humboldt University Berlin, 1-... more PhD course on operative images (widely construed) to take place at Humboldt University Berlin, 1-3 March 2017. Organized by: Inge Hinterwaldner, Jacob Wamberg and Aud Sissel Hoel. Key note speakers: Horst Bredekamp, Adrian MacKenzie and Martina Merz.
Marshall McLuhan famously claimed that media are “extensions of man”. More specifically, they cou... more Marshall McLuhan famously claimed that media are “extensions of man”. More specifically, they could be seen as prostheses of the human sensorium and its superstructure in the brain. As has become apparent in the last decades, technological extensions do not merely involve outward projections of pre-given human subjectivities. Instead, both environments and subjectivities are co-shaped through their anchorage in media. Furthermore, media amplify and co-ordinate sense experience and memories far beyond the capacities of the sensorium in its “naked” state. This transdisciplinary PhD course, which is jointly organized by Aarhus University and NTNU, focuses on artworks and aesthetic theories that examine the interaction between the human sensorium and its prostheses. Key questions include: How are the senses reconfigured, distributed and synaesthetically related in different media? Does art still have special responsibilities and capabilities to foreground sensory dimensions that tend to be downplayed by standardized media? Do new media technologies involve a rupture in human sensoria compared to traditional media? If the answer is yes, has this rupture been sufficiently explored by contemporary artists? Do new media technologies and their exploration in avant-garde art enable new alliances between affective and cognitive reactions?
Time and place: PhD course 20-22 January 2016, Aarhus University.
Speakers: Siegfried Zielinski (Berlin University of the Arts), Ina Blom (University of Oslo) and Mark B.N. Hansen (Duke University)
Deadline for registration: 1 December 2015
European Review, 2016
The posthuman summons up a complex of both tangible challenges for humanity and a potential shift... more The posthuman summons up a complex of both tangible challenges for humanity and a potential shift to a larger, more comprehensive historical perspective on humankind. In this article we will first examine the posthuman in relation to the macro-historical framework of the Anthropocene. Adopting key notions from complexity theory, we argue that the earlier counter-figures of environmental catastrophe (Anthropocene entropy) and corporeal enhancement (transhuman negentropy) should be juxtaposed and blended. Furthermore, we argue for the relevance of a comprehensive aesthetical perspective in a discussion of posthuman challenges. Whereas popular visual culture and many novels illustrate posthuman dilemmas (e.g. the superhero’s oscillation between superhuman and human) in a respect for humanist naturalist norms, avant-garde art performs a posthuman alienation of the earlier negentropic centres of art, a problematization of the human body and mind, that is structurally equivalent to the en...
I “Apocalypse now” skriver Jacob Wamberg om telenærvær, cyborgs, medier og kunst. Ifølge Wamberg ... more I “Apocalypse now” skriver Jacob Wamberg om telenærvær, cyborgs, medier og kunst. Ifølge Wamberg medfører de nye digitale teknologier, at kunsten træderind i virkeligheden ved ikke blot at simulere, men også udvise funktionelle egenskaber, som normalt ikke forbindes med æstetiske virkemidler
This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Weste... more This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them.
Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of inno... more Are art and technology coming into a closer relationship with nature? Through a selection of innovative readings by international scholars, this book argues that since 1900 we have experienced a renewed negotiation of the convergent triangle of art, technology and nature, analysing its shifting constellations in post-medieval times. Through this negotiation, art becomes truly complementary to technology in understanding nature's agencies and may gain an important role in adjusting technology's present utilitarian hegemony.