The Opening of Space: Perception Changes by Technology
(2022) KOVM12 20221Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Abstract
- This thesis explores two contemporary artists’ use of digital technology, whose work deal with the question of how technology determines the way we perceive space. As a background to these explorations, I discuss how spaces relates to technology in visual culture through art history with examples of specific Chinese and western landscape paintings. I look at Martin Heidegger’s definition of technology and the theory of spatial turn from Henri Lefebvre. Furthermore, I extend the concept of the spatial turn to the collapse and destruction of space. From this background, I return to the contemporary digital art to explore the question of how contemporary visual artists’ use of digital technology to respond to a series of questions relating to... (More)
- This thesis explores two contemporary artists’ use of digital technology, whose work deal with the question of how technology determines the way we perceive space. As a background to these explorations, I discuss how spaces relates to technology in visual culture through art history with examples of specific Chinese and western landscape paintings. I look at Martin Heidegger’s definition of technology and the theory of spatial turn from Henri Lefebvre. Furthermore, I extend the concept of the spatial turn to the collapse and destruction of space. From this background, I return to the contemporary digital art to explore the question of how contemporary visual artists’ use of digital technology to respond to a series of questions relating to the spatial turn and how to reflect on space. (Less)
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@misc{9095979, abstract = {{This thesis explores two contemporary artists’ use of digital technology, whose work deal with the question of how technology determines the way we perceive space. As a background to these explorations, I discuss how spaces relates to technology in visual culture through art history with examples of specific Chinese and western landscape paintings. I look at Martin Heidegger’s definition of technology and the theory of spatial turn from Henri Lefebvre. Furthermore, I extend the concept of the spatial turn to the collapse and destruction of space. From this background, I return to the contemporary digital art to explore the question of how contemporary visual artists’ use of digital technology to respond to a series of questions relating to the spatial turn and how to reflect on space.}}, author = {{He, Yijie}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The Opening of Space: Perception Changes by Technology}}, year = {{2022}}, }