Fecha: Jueves 27 de febrero de 2014
Hora: 18:30
Lugar: Sala de Posgrados, Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería
Título de la tesis: "Decoupling and context in new media art"
Director Académico: Dr. Franco Robledo
Director de Tesis: Dr. Álvaro Cassinelli
Tribunal
- Dr. Andrew Burrell (School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) - Revisor -
- Dr. Pablo Prieto (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile) - Revisor -
- Dra. Karla Brunet (Instituto de Humanidades, Artes y Ciências, Universidade Federal da Bahía, Brasil)
- Dr. Guillermo Moncecchi (Instituto de Computación, Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR / PEDECIBA Informática)
- Dr. Gonzalo Besuievsky (Departamento de Informática, Matemática Aplicada y Estadística, Universidad de Girona, España)
Resumen
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 definingcharacteristics 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 itintroduces 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 andperceptual 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 productionfrom 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.