Audiovisual Disruption: Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts

Pedro Ferreira

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Audiovisual Disruption

Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts

Pedro Ferreira

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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A look at post-digital aesthetics to unveil the current impacts of digital media technologies on our post-digital age.

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Tomi Slotte Dufva:

»For anyone interested in artistic research, digital frameworks, or contemporary aesthetics, this book offers a critical and inspiring resource that is sure to spark joy in readers’ minds.«

Tomi Slotte Dufva:

»›Audiovisual Disruption‹ succeeds in providing a rich and thought-provoking analysis of the post-digital condition. Its dual emphasis on theoretical rigour and artistic practice ensures its appeal to a diverse audience, from scholars and educators to practising artists. By the end of the book, readers are left not only with a deeper understanding of post-digital aesthetics but also with practical tools for engaging with this complex landscape. For anyone interested in artistic research, digital frameworks, or contemporary aesthetics, this book offers a critical and inspiring resource that is sure to spark joy in readers’ minds.«
Tomi Slotte Dufva, Aalto-University, the school of Arts, Design and Architecture

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Introduction
Purpose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Significance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
1. Audiovisual Arts in the Post-Digital Age
Audiovisual Arts and Audiovisuology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Origins of the Term Post-Digital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Post-Digital Aesthetics and Condition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
Post-Media, Post-Internet and New Aesthetic
Post-media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Post-internet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
New aesthetic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Analogue Atoms + Digital Bits = Post-digital Hybridisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
Digital Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Mapping the Post-Digital Aesthetics in Audiovisual Arts
On digital media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Within digital media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
In-between digital and non-digital media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Off digital media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
2. Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts
On Digital Media
The aesthetics of failures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	60
The critical role of glitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Within Digital Media
The aesthetics of saturation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
Queering digital media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
In-Between Digital and Non-Digital Media
The aesthetics of hybridisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Beyond the screen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Off Digital Media
The aesthetics of repurposing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
Neo-analogue turn as resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Materiality and the tangibility of film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
Repurposing and resurrecting media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
Analogue-digital media assemblages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Comparing the Post-Digital Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
3. Critical Making and Post-Digital Hybridisation in Audiovisual Arts
A Brief Introduction to Critical Making
Critical making as a process-oriented practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Repoliticising Makers and Technology-Oriented Artists
Making through a hands-on approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
Critical Making and Post-Digital Art
Critically-made art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
Post-digital hybridisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Entanglement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
4. Understanding the Post-Digital Condition Through Practice-Based Research
Datox
The computational society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
Electricity and non-human agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Album and archive of electronics’ noise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
Live performance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
Data overload recovery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
On a Scroll Through the Cloud
The cloud materiality and its obfuscation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
The normalisation of surveillance capitalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
Navigating the foggy environment of the cloud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
Things I Do When I’m Bored
The corporate web and digital folklore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
Vlogging because I’m so bored Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
I’m so bored so I decided to make a vlog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Boredom vlogging patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Let there be more boredom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Debris
An introduction to electronic waste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
Computation and computational media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Digital media (im)materiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
The constellation of digital media materiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Can you defeat planned obsolescence? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
The detritus of digital media technologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Deep Touch
Sensing and smartness devices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
Nonsense apparatus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Rematerialising the invisible forces of big tech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
All to Sand Returns
Speculations on future landscapes and contemporary anxieties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Repurposing analogue media and analogue-digital media hybrids Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Environment and matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Conclusion: Rethinking Post-Digital Audiovisual Arts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Appendix: List of the Series of Artworks
Datox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
On a Scroll Through the Cloud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Things I Do When I’m Bored Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Debris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Deep Touch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
All to Sand Returns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Understanding the Post-Digital Condition Through Practice-Based Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Conclusion: Rethinking Post-Digital Audiovisual Arts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

October 30, 2024

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9783839474167

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

198

Illustrations:

45

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45 schw.-w. Abb.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839474167

eBook ISBN: 9783839474167

Keywords for this book

Post-Digital; Post-Digital; Aesthetics; Aesthetics; Audiovisuals; Audiovisuals; Media Arts; Media Arts; Digital Culture; Digital Culture; Art; Art; Theory of Art; Theory of Art; Art History of the 21st Century; Art History of the 21st Century; Fine Arts; Fine Arts

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