New relations in “post” era
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Master's thesis
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2019
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Mcode
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Visual Culture and Contemporary Art
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ViCCA
Language
en
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67
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As technology is developed, there become various changes in the world. And human is interacting very close to machines and technology more than any time. Philosophers have been criticising the modern concept of humanism to adjust to this new era. Artists are also one of the groups who react to it sensitively. In digital culture, humans become diverse forms and contexts, and this change demands the new definition of the human being. The existing boundaries of human and non-human such as, machine, nature are getting blurred and making new forms of relationships. These attempts can be found both in the words of philosophers and the practices of artists. In three chapters, the relationship between human and machine is discussed, based on various theoretical background and artistic practices. The first chapter contains two art projects of the author and deals with the new perspective of a machine and human subjectivity. In addition, chapter 2 of this thesis investigates how this new relationship affects the audiences and digital artworks in the museum. It focuses on relocated audiences who are positioned through media art. In the last chapter, by referencing non-human protagonists from pop culture who confront to the futuristic world, it explores the expecting problems and suggests to broaden the understanding of human and other species, to inhabit well in this “post” era.Description
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Ryynänen, MaxThesis advisor
Schwarz, LorenzKeywords
relationship between human and machine, posthumanism, relationship between audience and artwork, pop culture and media art, human and non-human, becoming (post)human
