The Way We See the World (original) (raw)

Seeing the World through Technology and Art

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2008

Mediated Vision, edited by Petran Kockelkoren, is a collection of articles and art exhibitions that each explores the effects that technology has upon the ways humans experience the world. After a review of the collection as a whole, I return in a final section to two of the articles, those written by Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek, to provide them further contextualization and commentary. Verbeek's piece, I suggest, represents an important next step in a specific line of criticism of Ihde's work. With Mediated Vision, Kockelkoren has made the rare accomplishment of assembling a collection that taken together amounts to more that the sum of its individual contributions. The articles and works of art are quite diverse, but are related to one another in that each explores aspects of human vision mediated by technology. The essays are written by philosophers and art historians such as Don Ihde,

#EARTH2018 - Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage

L’applicazione delle tecnologie digitali alla museografia contemporanea sta progressivamente cambiando la concezione dell’edificio museale, così come delle modalità allestitive. Il ruolo della tecnologia non solo aggiorna scientificamente il processo museografico, ma aggiorna le possibilità fruitive del percorso museale. Il paper si propone: 1) di individuare i modi e i tempi di questo cambiamento. Non solo l’individuazione del momento in cui si sviluppa l’applicazione della tecnologia digitale all’interno museografico, ma anche la definizione degli elementi al contorno, definiscono lo scenario di una nuova fruibilità dell’immagine artistica. 2) di verificare se lo scenario contemporaneo possa essere riportato alle precedenti categorie di analisi fenomenologica. È possibile cioè confrontare la dialettica estetica tra spettatore e opera d’arte del passato con quella del presente (e possibilmente del futuro)? 3) di additare uno scenario plausibile per la disciplina museografica (in riferimento sia all’ambito scientifico-disciplinare, sia al destino del patrimonio culturale), non solo riaggiornando l’ambito disciplinare, ma anche allargando la nozione di opera d’arte.

Open-air museums: digital cultures, aesthetics and everyday life

Vista, 2021

At a time when everything becomes art, art no longer belongs to itself, to the point of overflowing from the frames that have enclosed it for several centuries-museums, galleries, churches-with unprecedented effects not only in the field of aesthetics, but above all in ordinary life. To understand this in depth, it is necessary to take into account the digital reproducibility of the work of art as a dynamic that upsets the relationship between work and spectator, subject and object, politics and everyday life. From the second half of the 18th century onwards, we saw a dynamic of "aestheticization of the public" parallel to the birth of the cultural industry and, therefore, the transformation of culture into merchandise. It is an ambiguous process, as it implies the emergence of the mass as the central subject of our culture, but also its definitive reification. What about aesthetics in such a condition? This study explores the genology and history of this process by updating Walter Benjamin's thinking in relation to the cultural emergencies of our time. In particular, it seems essential to understand what happens to the aura in the context of a condition in which the aesthetic object, the work of art and, more generally, the area that concerns beauty is available, used and consumed in everyday life, to the point of placing our cities as "open air museums".

Art, Museums and Digital Cultures → Rethinking Change

2021

Barranha, H. and Henriques, J. S. (eds.) (2021). Art, Museums and Digital Cultures – Rethinking Change. Lisbon: IHA/NOVA FCSH and maat. DOI: 10.34619/hwfg-s9yy [EN] Following the International Conference on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures (April 2021), this e-book seeks to extend the discussion on the concept of change that is usually associated with the relationship between culture and technology. Through the contributions of 32 authors from 12 countries, the book not only questions how digital media have inspired new artistic and curatorial practices, but also how, conversely, critical and creative proposals in the fields of art and museums have opened up alternative paths to technological development. Acknowledging the different approaches to the topic, ranging from retrospective readings to the analysis of recent issues and projects, the book is divided into seven sections and a visual essay, highlighting collaborative territories and the crossovers between different areas of scientific knowledge. Available in open access, this publication is the result of a collaborative project promoted by the Institute of Art History of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon and maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. Partner institution: Instituto Superior Técnico. Sponsor: Millennium bcp Foundation. Media partner: Umbigo magazine. [PT] No seguimento da Conferência Internacional sobre Arte, Museus e Culturas Digitais (Abril 2021), este e-book pretende aprofundar a discussão sobre o conceito de mudança, geralmente associado à relação entre cultura e tecnologia. Através dos contributos de 32 autores, de 12 países, questiona-se não só a forma como o digital tem motivado novas práticas artísticas e curatoriais, mas também o inverso, observando como propostas críticas e criativas no campo da arte e dos museus têm aberto vias alternativas para o desenvolvimento tecnológico. Assumindo a diversidade de perspectivas sobre o tema, de leituras retrospectivas à análise de questões e projectos recentes, o livro estrutura-se em torno de sete capítulos e um ensaio visual, evidenciando os territórios de colaboração e cruzamento entre diferentes áreas de conhecimento científico. Disponível em acesso aberto, esta publicação resulta de um projecto colaborativo promovido pelo Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e pelo maat - Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia. Instituição parceira: Instituto Superior Técnico. Mecenas: Fundação Millennium bcp. Media partner: revista Umbigo.

Chasing Future Feelings: A Practice-led Experiment with Emergent Digital Materialities of Heritage

Museum and Society, 2021

High-fidelity imaging methods such as laser scanning and digital photogrammetry have captured public and professional audiences in a flurry of optimistic discourse about their capacities as forms of preservation and of archaeological recording and interpretation. With technical finesse and mastery, endangered heritage can, it is argued, be captured, re-materialized, and recovered from the forces that threaten it. As the plot concerning our ‘digital futures’ thickens, we discuss here an experimental project that offers an oblique approach to the practice of 3D visualization, one that subverts the dominance of neutral, technical field engagements. We examine digital materiality by exploring digital heritage objects as both method and site of ethnographic encounter. Orbiting the ruins of Asinou, an abandoned village in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, with our ‘low-tech’ equipment, we sought to observe the conditions of the ‘in-between’ of two makeshift forms, each as ‘real’ as the oth...