Video between Architecture and Telepathy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21974032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Holt (0009-0001-5755-2813, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 133 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/arts12040133 |
| OpenAlex | W4382699089 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
On 6 January 1973, Chilean media artist Juan Downey exhibited Plato Now at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. A hybrid multichannel video installation and performance, this was Downey’s restaging of Plato’s Parable of the Cave—the “Now” registering what the myth might look like from the vantage of his own historical moment. And whereas Plato’s original operated through an inflexible division between the space of the mind and a derivative sensual reality, Plato Now explicitly sought to blur those philosophical lines by assembling a relay of invisible energies, brain waves, video signals, and telepathic communications, such that the space of mind and sensual reality became speculatively entangled. This article clarifies just how Plato Now did this, and situates its philosophical vision as a significant, if relatively unremarked, aesthetic prefiguration of the new materialist tendencies towards relationality, hybrid assemblages, and vibrant conceptions of energy and matter
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Impossibility · Literature · Materialism · Mythology · Sensibility · Telepathy · Visual arts · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Architecture
The Buddha in the Machine
The Cybernetic Brain
How We Became Posthuman
Zen and the Brain
What is an Assemblage
Cybernetic Guerrilla Warfare Revisited
Topological Pathways of Post-Minimalism
The Transversality of New Materialism
In Search of Post-Humanist Theory
Cybernetics and Art
Beyond the Mirror
Whiteness and the Ontological Turn in Sound Studies
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
Plato and the Simulacrum
A Genealogy of Video
The New Materialisms and Indigenous Theories of Non-Human Agency
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