Searching for a Technological Agency within Art. By Luke Munn
Featured on Furtherfield's Community Blog - Luke Munn has written a personal and in depth blog which is a reflection on the ideas and subjects he has come across the past few months whilst viewing contemporary artists, designers and technologists. Munn presents three strands: Disappearing Interface, Evaporating Agency, Making the Invisible Visible and Post-Internet Play. "In the wake of the Arab spring and the financial crisis and in the midst of the massive abuse of privacy unveiled in the NSA/Prism revelations, agency would seem to be all the more urgent. While problematic as pure activism, art is inherently political, opening into the wider plane of aesthetics which define “a cartography of the visible, the intelligible and also of the possible.” Are there art practices which provide models for this moment, which engender critical agency within their viewing publics, encouraging a deeper engagement with technology?" http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/luke-munn/searching-technological-agency-within-art _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
