Lee Mackinnon
Biographic Data
| ID | 317399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Mackinnon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackinnon |
| SIGNATURE | MACKINNON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Arts London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1448-497X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unseeing’ Photography
This paper explores the presentation of a contentious image in the space of an international classroom. The image, known as Tank Man, has come to signify much more than the student pro-democracy protests, and subsequent government response in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Seen by the West to exemplify a ‘moral bottom-line’ regarding China’s human rights abuses, it has been subsequently banned in China. How might presentation of this image b…
Love, Games and Gamification
A number of authors claim that Western European modern romantic love has been 'gamified' by digital apps and platforms, resulting in a ludic market logic that is increasingly compulsive and even addictive. This paper will suggest that modern romantic love was, in fact, predicated on games, particularly games of chance and competition. These games are seen to provide a number of functions, including homosocial bonding, the vindication of personal …
Maszyny miłości a Tinder Bot Bildungsroman
Zajmuje si porwnawczym badaniem mediw
Repeat after me
Modern romantic love is contemplated in association with industrial forms of production and labour. Attention is paid to the ways in which women are industrialisation’s automatic operatives par excellence, as well as the subjects and objects of love
The techniques and aesthetics of love in the age of big data
The nexus between love and digitization has become a significant matter of concern in contemporary society. On the one hand, the romantic subject has never had more help at hand to seek out love through apps and platforms. On the other, hand, these very same aids are claimed to signal the end of romantic love. While there is much debate on whether or not digitization and love are incompatible systems, and much time has been devoted to exploring t…
Artificial Stupidity and the End of Men
This article critically evaluates Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina (2015) and its reiteration of romanticism, modernism and affiliated critical discourse. Rather than exploring the film in relation to associated science fiction, Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964) is cited as the film’s historical precedent: the encoding of a woman by gentleman scholars who test the woman’s capacity to be assimilated into wider society. The digital context of the film’s fu…
Toward a Materialist Photography
This article moves toward a materialist photography in response to a recent photographic exhibition by Giles Duley. Duley's work is made under the auspices of a ‘humanitarian project’, a notion problematised by its display in the context of the art gallery, and by the photograph as the final product in a process that is also the property of the photographer. I use this work as a starting point for moving photographic discourse beyond consideratio…
Toward an Algorithmic Realism
This paper explores the gathering of radio, optical and electromagnetic wavelength data in assembling images of the Crab Nebula (1844–2000). The author considers the expanding fields of astronomical and astrophysical knowledge to which such data analysis has given rise. She suggests that the data that makes such imaging possible moves us further from conventions of the optical real toward an algorithmic realism, alluding to time-scales that delim…
No One Has Yet Determined What Art Can Do’
Review of an art event that confronted illegal U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Love, Games and Gamification
A number of authors claim that Western European modern romantic love has been 'gamified' by digital apps and platforms, resulting in a ludic market logic that is increasingly compulsive and even addictive. This paper will suggest that modern romantic love was, in fact, predicated on games, particularly games of chance and competition. These games are seen to provide a number of functions, including homosocial bonding, the vindication of personal …
Repeat after me
Modern romantic love is contemplated in association with industrial forms of production and labour. Attention is paid to the ways in which women are industrialisation’s automatic operatives par excellence, as well as the subjects and objects of love
Artificial Stupidity and the End of Men
This article critically evaluates Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina (2015) and its reiteration of romanticism, modernism and affiliated critical discourse. Rather than exploring the film in relation to associated science fiction, Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964) is cited as the film’s historical precedent: the encoding of a woman by gentleman scholars who test the woman’s capacity to be assimilated into wider society. The digital context of the film’s fu…
No One Has Yet Determined What Art Can Do’
Review of an art event that confronted illegal U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Toward an Algorithmic Realism
This paper explores the gathering of radio, optical and electromagnetic wavelength data in assembling images of the Crab Nebula (1844–2000). The author considers the expanding fields of astronomical and astrophysical knowledge to which such data analysis has given rise. She suggests that the data that makes such imaging possible moves us further from conventions of the optical real toward an algorithmic realism, alluding to time-scales that delim…
Toward a Materialist Photography
This article moves toward a materialist photography in response to a recent photographic exhibition by Giles Duley. Duley's work is made under the auspices of a ‘humanitarian project’, a notion problematised by its display in the context of the art gallery, and by the photograph as the final product in a process that is also the property of the photographer. I use this work as a starting point for moving photographic discourse beyond consideratio…
Artificial Stupidity and the End of Men
This article critically evaluates Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina (2015) and its reiteration of romanticism, modernism and affiliated critical discourse. Rather than exploring the film in relation to associated science fiction, Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964) is cited as the film’s historical precedent: the encoding of a woman by gentleman scholars who test the woman’s capacity to be assimilated into wider society. The digital context of the film’s fu…
Repeat after me
Modern romantic love is contemplated in association with industrial forms of production and labour. Attention is paid to the ways in which women are industrialisation’s automatic operatives par excellence, as well as the subjects and objects of love
The techniques and aesthetics of love in the age of big data
The nexus between love and digitization has become a significant matter of concern in contemporary society. On the one hand, the romantic subject has never had more help at hand to seek out love through apps and platforms. On the other, hand, these very same aids are claimed to signal the end of romantic love. While there is much debate on whether or not digitization and love are incompatible systems, and much time has been devoted to exploring t…
Maszyny miłości a Tinder Bot Bildungsroman
Zajmuje si porwnawczym badaniem mediw
Unseeing’ Photography
This paper explores the presentation of a contentious image in the space of an international classroom. The image, known as Tank Man, has come to signify much more than the student pro-democracy protests, and subsequent government response in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Seen by the West to exemplify a ‘moral bottom-line’ regarding China’s human rights abuses, it has been subsequently banned in China. How might presentation of this image b…
Love, Games and Gamification
A number of authors claim that Western European modern romantic love has been 'gamified' by digital apps and platforms, resulting in a ludic market logic that is increasingly compulsive and even addictive. This paper will suggest that modern romantic love was, in fact, predicated on games, particularly games of chance and competition. These games are seen to provide a number of functions, including homosocial bonding, the vindication of personal …
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