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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00475
- Thesis Title
- DECOUPLING AND CONTEXT IN NEW MEDIA ART
- Author
- Tomás Laurenzo
- E-mail
- tomas AT laurenzo.net
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- PhD
- Year
- 2014
- Number of Pages
- 215
- University
- Universidad de la República
- Thesis Supervisor
- Álvaro Cassinelli
- Supervisor e-mail
- cassinelli.alvaro AT gmail.com
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Franco Robledo
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- New Media Art
- Copyright Ownership
- Tomas Laurenzo
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.fing.edu.uy/~laurenzo/phd/
- Keywords
- new media art, politics, geopolitics, decoupling, context, interaction
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This dissertation presents a novel characterization of new media art, centered on media appropriation: the dialectal insertion of technological knowledge into the art practice. The thesis identifies some defining characteristics of new media art’s language, and indicates the defining role that explicitation plays.
While media appropriation is not necessarily linked to the digital realm, it provides a natural substratum for it and so this thesis analyzes some aspects of the relationship between art and technology, where it introduces the user–programmer continuum and the perceptual cloud, a new paradigm of human–computer interaction that emerges from the functional and geographical decoupling of the computational and perceptual layers of interactive systems.
Next, it analyzes the sociopolitical inscription of new media art, integrating the economic and political contexts of its practice into the analysis and providing a new reflection on new media art production from the geopolitical periphery.
This thesis is proposed as a hybrid research–practice. A selected subset of the artworks created are presented and analyzed within the dissertation’s conceptual framework.