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Mutable Aesthetics: Emergence In Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Mutable Aesthetics: Emergence In Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
In order to make the claim that the aesthetic specificities of digital art practices are about more than their technologies, this paper contends that the micro- and macrocosmic realms of information theory are applicable and useful in the field of art history. In his introduction to The Digital Dialectic, Peter Lunenfeld presents the impact of the digital on representational media as the recasting of 'everything' as 'digital information.' Consequently, everything can be 'stored, accessed, and controlled by the same equipment' (Lunenfeld 2000, xvi). For Lunenfeld, the digital does not merely represent an aesthetic, or a process, but operates from 'similarity …
Virtual Affection: Bodies And Installation Spaces, Su Ballard
Virtual Affection: Bodies And Installation Spaces, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
Discourses of the digital and their central concerns with issues such as duration, sensation, interactivity, immersion and affect offer new positions from which to view and articulate contemporary installation art. The digital as used here refers broadly to installations that have passed through a digital environment (such as an editing suite or a computer), or are simply informed by digital presence. Digital installation involves many aspects, including - but not limited to - space, light, time, viewer, projection, apparatus, objects and shadows, and as such is a machine operating across different thresholds. Like Alice's experiences in Wonderland, or Dorothy in …
Entropy And Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Entropy And Digital Installation, Su Ballard
Su Ballard
What would it mean if communication were exact? That, in spite of the real, material, spaces of message, channel, format, filters, modulations, mediation, and plain old error, it might be possible to exclude all noise and see through to some pure space of connection and transmission. Despite my curiosity, I suspect the result would be disappointingly dull, or simply redundant. The search for perfect communication is as pointless as trying to find an audio space not infected with electromagnetic waves, or a gallery space where only one work is apprehended at a time. Our communications spaces are always already determined …