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Probing Mundania : Using Art and Cultural Analysis to Explore Emerging Technologies

Willim, Robert LU orcid (2023) In Cultural Analysis 21(1). p.22-37
Abstract
This essay will discuss my work in the interstices between art and cultural analysis. I will expound on how I’ve used a certain concept as part of artistic practice and cultural analytic research. The concept, which I’ve chosen to call Mundania, is used to grapple with the role of emerging technologies in everyday life. The concept is used to discharge imaginations about everyday life characterised by a looming uncertainty and the comingling with ungraspable complex technologies that gradually become ordinary. I will show and discuss how the work with the Mundania-concept is based on processes of probing.
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art, emerging technologies, digital, media, probing
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Cultural Analysis
volume
21
issue
1
pages
16 pages
publisher
University of California
ISSN
1537-7873
project
Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation
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English
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yes
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b3dc0303-358c-44a7-abfc-dc9301b7abba
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https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume21_1/vol21_1_Willim.html
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