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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan A BRAVE NEW WORLD: LIFE IN THE GLOBAL METROPOLIS Dr Melissa Milton-Smith Head of Communications and Media <strong>University</strong> of Notre Dame Fremantle, Australia Email: Melissa.Milton-Smith@nd.edu.au Telephone: +61 8 9433 0252 57
The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan In the new millennium, digital artists are questioning the nature of human existence within the global metropolis. As a case example, digital artist Marnix de Nijs’ uses interactive, responsive and cinematic media to explore notions of alienation, diaspora, flux and dislocation within urban contexts. His installations examine globalisation’s affects – and in doing so – provide new ways for us to respond to its ‘brave new worlds’. In this paper I present digital media as a unique mode of expression, borne of globalisation’s zeitgeist and uniquely situated to articulate its human impacts. Most critically, I explore how interactive digital installations can re-imagine human life within the global metropolis. Marnix de Nijs is a Netherlands born artist who uses dynamic mixed media. His artworks explore interplays between human body and machine. De Nijs tests the limits of physical endurance and survival, within a world dominated by high-speed technology and saturated media. In reflecting upon his works, the artist observes that ‘[t]echnology must literally merge, become absorbed into the body so that it becomes a co-determiner of perception.’ 1 De Nijs’ interactive installation Beijing Accelerator (2006) physically engages the individual, transforming them from a detached art spectator (in a 19 th century sense), to an active maker and user. This re-arrangement of roles challenges the traditional binary, separating the artists from their audience. Beijing Accelerator invites the user to sit on a racing chair, which is fixed to a motorised frame. 2 The frame spins clockwise and anti-clockwise, with a joystick controlling the speed and direction. A 160x120 cm screen is fixed to the spinning frame, which sits directly in front of the user. A square target on the screen must be matched with the magnified image, in order to facilitate alignment. The user’s objective within Beijing Accelerator is to align the speed of the projected image with the chair’s spinning momentum. Once the speed of the imagery and chair are aligned, the user can clearly determine the panorama (which alleviates any nausea caused by the disjunction). However, this remedy is short lasting: soon a new panorama is displayed, which flows by at an even higher preset speed. There are 6 levels for the user to complete. Beijing Accelerator builds upon notions of urban tempo and technological change explored in his earlier work, Run Motherfucker Run (2004). Run Motherfucker Run featured projected images of a dark and ominous urban landscape, which changed in size and saturation in response to the user’s interaction with the treadmill. Like Run Motherfucker Run, Beijing Accelerator projects images of a metropolitan Beijing. The installation was created after the artist’s visit to Beijing and ‘realization of how quickly the dynamics of a city could transform into such apparent modernism.’ 3 De Nijs observed rapid changes to the urban landscape, including the proliferation of new media and dizzying tempo of life within this global city. In conversing with these urban changes, de Nijs’ notes that ‘[o]ne of the characteristics of a technological culture is that change is constant. Everyone who wants to keep pace is continually required to adjust; which does not happen automatically and can, in time lead to cultural-pathological anomalies.’ 4 He locates technological change in historical terms, noting that ‘travellers had to get used to the first trains and aeroplanes. The introduction of such travel technology initially led to disorientation and required a new outlook.’ 5 1 Marnix De Nijs, Artist Website, , (accessed 30 September 2010). 2 Marnix De Nijs, Artist Website. 3 Marnix De Nijs, Artist Website. 4 Marnix De Nijs, Artist Website. 5 Marnix De Nijs, Artist Website. 58
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