Art and Technology
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Yvonne Förster
Abstract
The world we live in is shaped by technology and its development. This process is observed and debated in the humanities as well as in computer science and cognitive sciences. Narratives of human life being merged with and transcended by technology not only belong to science fiction but also to science: Theorists like Katherine Hayles or Mark B. N. Hansen speak of a technogenesis of consciousness. These accounts hold that our cognitive abilities are deeply influenced by technology and digital media. The digitalization of the lifeworld is a global phenomenon, which unfolds regardless of local cultures. It is art which seeks to explore the experiential aspects of technologically shaped life-worlds. In my contribution I will present examples of artworks which focus on the possibility of aesthetic experiences with new technologies and getting in touch with the so-called technological unconscious. I attempt to investigate the potential of art to unfold experiential aspects of human rapport with technology and thereby develop aisthetic practices for understanding the cultural and political dimensions of digitalized life-worlds.
Artworks
Nam Jun Paik, TV-Buddha, South Korea 1974Search in Google Scholar
Peter Garritano, The Internet, USA 2015Search in Google Scholar
Cécile B. Evans, What the Heart Wants, Belgium, USA 2016Search in Google Scholar
Movies
Ghost in the Shell (Japan 1995), Oshii MamoruSearch in Google Scholar
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
