System ID:
93
Title:
Stranger's images: Net Art and an-other representation
Author:
Maria Victoria Guglietti
Author 2:
Author 3:
Degree:
Master of Arts in Communication Studies
Year:
2004
Pages:
117
University:
University of Calgary
Supervisor:
Dr. Brian Rusted
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Language:
English
Dept:
Communication Studies
Copyright:
Maria Victoria Guglietti
Lang_author:
Spanish/English/Italian/French
Url:
Email:
mvguglie@connect.carleton.ca
Keywords:
Net Art/ Epistemology/ Otherness
Abstract:
Stranger’s images: Net Art and another representation
By María Victoria Guglietti
This thesis explores the way in which the Internet facilitates artists in constructing an-other knowledge, defined as the deconstruction of a Modern and Western regime of knowledge/representation organized around the axis subject/object. Based on Fairclough’s three dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis I have analyzed nine on-line artworks and five months of on-line and face to face interviews with Canadian based on-line artists. The result was a reading of these works in terms of strategies of subversion. I argue that Net Art, art produced, exhibited and distributed for and on the Internet, constitutes a field where it is possible to observe Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) technology’s contribution to the deconstruction of binary oppositions such as self/other, body/mind, technology/nature. This thesis proposes a shift from traditional definitions of Otherness as the non-Self to a notion of Otherness as a locus for reflection, a third term, an “in-betweeness”.
Last update:
May 31 2005
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