How do historical and contemporary artistic practices articulate the relation of design to chance, system to impulse, rule to variability? What are our present-day existential terrains given that, in the digital era, the senses are changing, too?
Cultural memory has traditionally been concerned with the role of the past in the present. Data, on the other hand, is concerned with the role of the present in the future. How should we think this new dynamic? Drawing on a recent research project The Future of Indeterminacy, in this talk, I discuss our contemporary digital condition through a focus on (art-life) intermedia, cultural memory, and bio-politics.
How do historical and contemporary artistic practices articulate the relation of design to chance, system to impulse, rule to variability? What are our present-day existential terrains given that, in the digital era, the senses are changing, too?
Cultural memory has traditionally been concerned with the role of the past in the present. Data, on the other hand, is concerned with the role of the present in the future. How should we think this new dynamic? Drawing on a recent research project The Future of Indeterminacy, in this talk, I discuss our contemporary digital condition through a focus on (art-life) intermedia, cultural memory, and bio-politics.
Professor Natasha Lushetich is Chair in Contemporary Art, Media & Theory at the University of Dundee, UK, and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on global art and the status of sensory experience in cultural knowledge; intermedia; critical mediality; biopolitics; performativity; and, more recently, datafication and complexity. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships such as Fulbright, Steim and ArtsLink and her research has been supported by Arts Council England; Amsterdam Art Council; European Research Council; Fonds Podiumkunsten; Maudsley Foundation; and VSB Foundation, among others.
Natasha’s books include Fluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality (Rodopi 2014); Interdisciplinary Performance (Palgrave 2016); The Aesthetics of Necropolitics (Rowman and Littlefield 2018); Beyond Mind, a special issue of Symbolism (De Gruyter 2019); Big Data: A New Medium? (Routledge 2020); Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (Routledge 2021; co-edited with I. Campbell); and Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (Rowman and Littlefield 2022; co-edited with I. Campbell and D. Smith).