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Data Performativity: Rethinking Liveness in Network Art
by Winnie Soon School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull, UK
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What is liveness?
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Liveness in Photography
“its precise degree of closeness and its exact relationship to its referent and the real”
(Dixon, 2007, p.116)
“Every Photograph is a certificate of presence”
(Barthes, 1981, p.87)
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Live TV Broadcast
- Reality
- Performing / Acting / Moving
- Presence (time & space)
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Liveness in the Internet
The demand of live is pervasive:
“the need to connect oneself, with others, to the world’s events, is central to the development of the modern nation.”
(Bourdon, 2000, p.552)
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Conception of Liveness
• The representation of data
• Reproduction: Recorded technologies
• “We often perceive reality only through the mediation of machines.”(Bolz & Van Reijen, 1996, p.71)
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Conception of Liveness
“live is actually an effect of mediatization... It was the development of recording technologies that made it possible to perceive existing representation as ‘live.’”
(Auslander, 2008, p.56)
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Conception of Liveness
Existing issues:
- human-centered
- Perceptible
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Network Art - jsut code
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Network Art - jsut code
• What is live data?
• What is live in relation to time?
• What is live in relation to the machinic process?
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Research on Liveness
• nonhuman and/or collaborative forces
• Machinic process
• Imperceptible
• Beyond visual and other forms of representation
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Questions
• How might we think about liveness in nonhuman sense?
• What might be the nonhuman forces?
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“Computer are processors, in a sense, mobile machines. There’s a fluidity to digital data: processing involves data in motion. These processes of navigation or motion relate to the depth of electronic forms.”
(Mcpherson, 2006, p.202)
nonhuman forces
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• Performativity of data
• politics of code
• dynamics of the network
• reading and writing the database
nonhuman forces
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Network Art / Culture
The notion of Live and cultural data become commodities
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Data Performativity: Rethinking liveness in Network Art
• To what extent, the forces of network/entities/code/technology reconfigure the conception of liveness?
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