Stepanov, Mikhail A. De-Autonomy of Post-Human Imagination: New Directions in the Theory of Art

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Title De-Autonomy of Post-Human Imagination: New Directions in the Theory of Art
Author email Michail.stepanov@gmail.com
About author Stepanov, Mikhail A. — Ph. D., head of the Chair of Advertising and Public Relations. Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design, Bolshaya Morskaya ul., 18, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; senior researcher. Center for Basic Studies in the Sphere of Culture, D. S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Kosmonavtov pr., 2, 129366 Moscow, Russian Federation. ORCID: 0000-0002-8793-5874
In the section Art Theory DOI10.18688/aa2212-07-53
Year 2022 Volume 12 Pages 663–673
Type of article RAR Index UDK 18, 7.01 Index BBK 85
Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of interpretation of new media art. It is proposed to consider the new phenomena of art through the concepts of de-autonomy and posthuman imagination. De-autonomy is affirmed as an essential feature of a work of contemporary art. This concept captures the fundamental “non-autonomy” of the existence of art, the situational nature of actions, the interdependence of contexts, the interpenetration and interconnection of environments.

The embodiment of digital reality objects in the physical environment, both screen images and paintings, installations, sculptures and other complex objects, requires an updated theoretical approach. The interconnection of a complex ecosystem of constant material transformation of objects becomes obvious. Man has “delegated” many abilities to machines, including “intelligence” — neural networks. The camera’s gaze is no longer tied to the subject’s point of view. It is the gaze, but the gaze of an “object” that internalizes into our own subjectivity, becoming our vision, so much so that no overseer is required to maintain this system. This is the process of developing of a posthuman imagination.

Posthuman imagination is based on corporeality, which has the experience of interacting with the emerging techno-genic visuality and digital materiality, when the experience of thinking machines becomes a human aesthetic experience.
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Reference Stepanov, Mikhail A. De-Autonomy of Post-Human Imagination: New Directions in the Theory of Art. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 12. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2022, pp. 663–673. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2212-07-53
Publication Article language russian
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