The Weaving of the World: Images in the World of the Internet of Human and Things
Abstract
This article is an attempt to reinterpret the imagery characteristic of network media based on different forms of wireless connectivity. Images circulating in these media are the effect of an intensive processing of data, and their ecology is different from the traditional forms of audiovisual culture: they are situated much closer to the environment within which they are produced (the examples come from artistic practices such as the art of climate, but they can also include participation mapping), as a result of a series of exchanges between human and non-human actors. Drawing on the theoretical propositions of James Gibson, especially to the theory of affordances considered within the context of his overall proposal related to ecological optics, Nacher suggests a departure from the representational model. Within this proposed approach the described types of images appear to be not individual units of representation, but a form of exchange of energy with the surroundings.
Keywords:
network media, James Gibson, art of climateReferences
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Anna Nacherkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (Katedra Mediów Audiowizualnych). Autorka książek: Telepłeć. Gender w telewizji doby globalizacji (2008) oraz Rubieże kultury popularnej. Popkultura w świecie przepływów (2012).
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