The Trojan Horse in the Studio: Abstraction, Generality and Instrumentality
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Lecturer:
Cameraman:
Category:
EVENT
Type:
presentation
Keywords:
hardware / information society / philosophy / programming / software / technique
Creation Date:
2007-03-25
Language:
English
Description:
The computer may be viewed as the reification of a rationalist world view, in that the hardware/software binarism and all that it entails, is little but an implementation of the Cartesian dual. Inasmuch as these technologies reify that world view, these values permeate their very fabric. Social and cultural practices, modes of production and consumption, inasmuch as they are situated and embodied, proclaim validities of specificity, situation and embodiment contrary to this order. Due to the economic and rhetorical force of the computer, the academic and popular discourses are persuasive. Thus, where computational technologies are engaged by social and cultural practices, there exists an implicit but fundamental theoretical crisis. An artist, engaging such technologies in the realization of a work, invites the very real possibility that the technology, as Trojan Horse, introduces values inimical to the basic qualities for which the artist strives. (...) (S.P.)
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Original Title (English):
The Trojan Horse in the Studio: Abstraction, Generality and Instrumentality
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok, Törley-terem / Kunsthalle, Törley Hall
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