(Non)Human Addition: Elaborated Heritage
Keywords:
big data, cosmic, generative art, immersive art, heritage, Kenderdine, materiality, (post)anthropology, spatial transfer, virtual travelAbstract
The article examines the problem of the influence of digital image processing technologies on the perception of works of art in the perspective of mastering or appropriating the cultural heritage of previous eras. The projects of the Australian artist and curator S. Kenderdine and the Russian artist E. Kraft, both using technologies of “augmentation” and processing of “big data”, are analyzed as examples. Against the background of the already traditional methods of description based on such terms as “doubling”, “augmentation”, “virtualization”, “proliferation”, the author refers to the understanding of heritage by J. Derrida’s, according to which heritage is never a given, but a result of an accurate comprehensive elaboration being done by successors. In such framing this is not so much authenticity that is important, which in the case of “digital copies” can be easily challenged, as the construction of a connection, interface with the viewer. Derrida’s conclusions can therefore be “augmented” by considering the problematization of materiality that these two projects, in particular, produce, each in its own way.
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