elizabeth /201 /discussion_prep

Plan

• Collect key words
• Small groups to define keywords
• Attack discussion questions
• Look at art...

Among our cast of characters:

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

from "Chapter 1 Of the Selection of Images for Conscious Presentation. What Our Body Means and Does"

• images
• body
• perceptions
• affections
• the (material) universe

What do people make of this? What's the function/effect of specialized vocabularies?

Mark B.N. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media

Introduction

• new media
• embodiment
• cinema
• Deleuze
• affection-image (p.6)
• affectivity (p.7)
• digital image (p.8-9)
• framing and enframing (p.10)
• ocularcentrist-haptic (p.12)
• Bergson v. Deleuze

What do people think of his interpretation of Bergson? (p.4)

Chapter 6 "The Affective Topology of New Media Art"

• Robert Lazzarini

skulls payphone more

• Craig Kalpakjian

hall, etc.

• anamorphosis (p.201) Hans Holbein the Younger
• ASW, any-space-whatever, (p.203)
• The Digital ASW

What's Hansen's point with this? Catching the wave of paradigm change on another acronym? Where's the new?

• non-place
• virtuality (p.214)
• internal interval(p.224)

What is the function of new media art? (p.220)

• modulation
• haptic
• affectivity (again)
• affective proprioception (p.228) (maybe look at this page closely...
  

Is this informative for our art?
Is there an inherently political dimension to embodiment itself?