El Putnam

The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity.
EL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies.
Putnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of digital imagery, such as the gap, the glitch, and the lag, as means of rendering images of the maternal uncanny in order to challenge mediation, constituting an aesthetics of interruption. The result is a radical critical strategy for engaging with digital technology and subsequent understandings of the subject that defy current modes of assimilation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501364808
• Artikelnr.: 63714855

Autorenporträt

EL Putnam is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Maynooth University. She is a scholar and artist working predominately in performance art, video, sound, and interactive media. Her practice and research focuses on the interplay of corporeal and digital gestures.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Dedication List of Illustrations Introduction: Strange
Mothers 1. Digital Performance and the Maternal Subject 2. The Aesthetics
of Interruption 3. Uncanny Encounters 4. Maternal Immanence and Embodied
Transcendence 5. Networked Individuals and Maternal Ambivalence 6.
Distributed Mother Bibliographic References Index