New Media Art and Micro Narrratives

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Activity date	26 May 2018
Degree of recognition	Local

Description

There are many entry points to the understanding of “new media.” Computation and machine processes intervene our historical and theoretical views of art to demand radical re-framing and a different genealogy. New media art tends toward the multiplicity of forms, proceduralism, intermedia and cross-disciplinary orientations. Sight and sound, too, undergo reframing as a new media practice. “Micro narratives” is my nomenclature in response to the omnipresence of framed images beyond the familiar movie and television screens, resulting in modes of viewing that accommodates the fragmentary and highlights perceptual surfaces. It is also my attempt to break down story-based and message-oriented image practices to a diverse range of time-base image flows, better understood as procedures, sequential ordering and morphological evolvement of sight-and-sound fragments of potentials, a vocabulary in line with machine processes. “Micro narratives” is re-theorizes image methods for artists, especially to think of imaging as playful experiments, and to encourage more liberated views and expectations for moving images among the everyday viewers.

A large part of the talk will be on three impetuses to the evolvement of what we imprecisely call “new media art” today: cybernetics, machine as organism, and “thing” power according to New Materialism. This important backdrop is essential in understanding the purposes behind the “Micro Narratives” as an experimental action to challenge sight-and-sound-based artistic creation.

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