About Us Without Us: Post-Anthropocentric Cinematographies of Human Exclusion Zones
Ewa Wójtowicz
ewa.wojtowicz@uap.edu.plUniversity of Arts in Poznan (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-940X
Abstract
The text focuses on post-anthropocentric cinematographies of human exclusion zones, created within theory- and practice-based research conducted with artistic methods. The examples include: research activities of the Strelka Institute (The New Normal and Geocinema), art by Emma Charles, John Gerrard, Evan Roth, Trevor Paglen and Liam Young (also within Unknown Field Division), Young’s theoretical concepts, as well as theories by Benjamin Bratton. The human exclusion zones include machine landscapes, such as data centres, server farms, automated production lines and mining sites that provide raw geological materials used in technological production. Also important are the networked circulation of images as data without human involvement (machine vision by artificial intelligence) and global data from sensory networks. All examples are discussed in the context of art projects using the medium of film.
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Keywords:
post-Anthropocene, human exclusion zones, new normal, geocinema, machine landscape, techno-essentialism, xenospace, infrastructure, machine visionReferences
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Authors
Ewa Wójtowiczewa.wojtowicz@uap.edu.pl
University of Arts in Poznan Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-940X
She is (new) media arts researcher and art critic with a background in fine arts; currently Associate Professor at the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. Author of monographs: Sztuka w kulturze postmedialnej [Art in Post-media Culture] (2016) and Net art (2008), as well as over 25 book chapters and more than 50 papers in Polish and European journals. Member of Polish Aesthetics Society, Polish Society of Cultural Studies, Polish Society for Film and Media Studies, and the Polish section of AICA. She is also the deputy editor-in-chief of Zeszyty Artystyczne, a scholarly journal published by the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies, University of Arts in Poznan.
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