Object Intermediaries
How New Media Artists Translate the Language of Things
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3980547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kayla Anderson (0009-0005-3038-3449, Artist and Writer / Manager of Special Collections, John M. Flaxman Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash Ave, Suite 508, Chicago, IL 60603, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 352-359 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00840 |
| OpenAlex | W4232609147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper uses Walter Benjamin's concept of translation between people and things as a focal point for analysis of the work of contemporary new-media artists Paula Gaetano Adi and Lindsey French, who utilize robotics and interactive technology to explore interspecies communication. Framed by materialist, poststructuralist, and posthumanist theory, along with recent discourse in object-oriented ontology, this paper poses the work of Gaetano Adi and French as potential models for visualizing object-oriented and vital materialist interactions. In the age of the Anthropocene, thinking beyond the human has become increasingly vital in both ethical and ecological terms, making the ability to envision less anthropocentric, more object-oriented worldviews both novel and timely
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Art · Cognitive science · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Intermediary · Materialism · Object (grammar) · Ontology · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |