Images, Senses and Bodies. Visual Dynamics at the Rise of Biomedia
Piotr Celiński
piotr.celinski@umcs.plMaria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland)
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-7473
Abstract
There are two cultural strategies shaping the order of images and visual culture by reaching beyond their traditional understanding. The first one is about restructuring cultural codes for sensing and understanding images. The second is based on biotechnological attempts to bypass senses and plug images directly into the neural system of the human body. The aim of this essay is to decode both strategies in a number of artistic creations by Yves Klein, Björk, and Jason Derulo, and to explain them in terms of visual culture and digital media theories by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Berger, Didier Anzieu, and Melina Diaconu. Such a mixture of media practices and theories leads to questions regarding future of watching, seeing and interacting with images, as well as our ability to use them in digital surroundings.
Keywords:
image, media, senses, body, digitalityReferences
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Authors
Piotr Celińskipiotr.celinski@umcs.pl
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Poland
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-7473
PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Media Theory, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. Digital media theorist and author, culture animator and curator. Author, publisher and editor of Interfejsy. Cyfrowe technologie w komunikowaniu [Interfaces: Digital Technologies in Communication] (2010), Kulturowe kody technologii cyfrowych [Cultural Codes of Digital Technologies] (2011), Mindware. Technologie dialogu [Mindware: The Technologies of Dialogue] (2012), Postmedia. Cyfrowy kod i bazy danych [Postmedia: Digital Code and Data Bases] (2013). Co-founder and board member of the Digital Culture Institute Foundation (www.kulturacyfrowa.org).
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