Embodied Multi{(Body; Space; Time; Performance;)} Marlot Meyer (2020)
Technology has created an interconnected, globalised world, with digital experiences reshaping our terms of existence and presenting us with bewildering opportunities and threats. Yet we feel we are moving further away from what it means to be human as we lose our connection to our bodies, nature and our immediate environment. But a disembodiement simply means a shift of focus from object to communication and interaction. What does it then mean, to be embodied in a mediated world? Are there new possibilities that only exist in the liminal spaces between physical and virtual?
Technology has created an interconnected, globalised world, with digital experiences reshaping our terms of existence and presenting us with bewildering opportunities and threats. Yet we feel we are moving further away from what it means to be human as we lose our connection to our bodies, nature and our immediate environment. But a disembodiement simply means a shift of focus from object to communication and interaction. What does it then mean, to be embodied in a mediated world? Are there new possibilities that only exist in the liminal spaces between physical and virtual?
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for the spectators to contribute,
comment, or have any affect on
the broadcaster. There is this desire
for a real life human feedback
channel for viewer interaction.
The missing materiality that new
technologies have created is
something that is untrue when
further investigated. We notice
and perhaps fear this shift from
the art-object and the corporeal
body to the non-object as we
‘upload ourselves’. But this is
simply a shift from the focus on
visual perception to other senses,
and to communication. Where
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processes become an artwork, not
simply an outcome. This energy
that is inherent to art, does not
reside in material entities, but in
the interaction and relationship
between people, things, and
their immediate and distant
environments. When these diverse
spaces and experiences overlap
and cause friction, it makes them
become more alive than anything.
Art becomes an idea and an
action, and this energy emphasises
its social, economic, and cultural
aspects and exposes these sectors
to alternative ways of thinking.
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