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Interpreting an Improper Materialism. On Aesthesis, Synesthesia and the Digital

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dc.creatorScarlett, Ashley
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T15:09:51Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T15:09:51Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores catachrestic synesthesia as a key interpretive strategy that contemporary media artists are drawing upon in an effort to conceptualize and grapple with ‘digital materiality.’ I argue that these synesthetic gestures are not merely poetic flourishes. Instead they test the limits of representation, identifying gaps in language while employing the body in order to triangulate modes of computational materiality that are proving conceptually and phenomenologically evasive. Grounded within a series of materialdriven interviews that I conducted with thirty-five digital media artists, this analysis will be advanced through the following means: (1) a review of media phenomena and scholarly work that inform current debates regarding digital materiality with particular attention paid to the potential contribution of contemporary media art within this field of study; (2) an analysis of occasions where artists conjured the senses synesthetically as a disoriented means of grasping at the material attributes of their digital works; and (3) a theorization of “catachrestic synesthesia” as an interpretive strategy with broader implications for how digital materiality ‘as such’ might be better understood.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/739
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2016/11/III.2-Scarlett_2015_Improper-materialism.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3145
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectdigital materialityen
dc.subjectdigital arten
dc.subjectcatachresisen
dc.subjectsynesthesia in arten
dc.subjectdigitale Materialitätde
dc.subjectDigitale Kunstde
dc.subjectKatachresede
dc.subjectSynästhesie in Kunstde
dc.subject.ddcddc:776
dc.subject.personJohanna Drucker
dc.titleInterpreting an Improper Materialism. On Aesthesis, Synesthesia and the Digitalde
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationScarlett, Ashley (2015): Interpreting an Improper Materialism. On Aesthesis, Synesthesia and the Digital. In: Digital Culture & Society 1 (1), S. 111–129. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/739.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:30:11
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local.source.epage129
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage111
local.source.volume1
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