[Nettime-nl] Tastend Zien -- Een debat rond At the Edges of Vision van Renée van de Vall

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

REMINDER -- ALLEN WELKOM

Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica

Vrijdag 27 november 2009

Tastend Zien
Een debat rond At the Edges of Vision van Renée van de Vall

14.00-17.00 uur
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Binnengasthuisterrein Zaal BG5 2.22

Programma

14.00 uur    Opening door Sander van Maas

14.05-14.30 uur   Presentatie door Renée van de Vall (Universiteit
Maastricht)

14.30-14.40 uur  Informatieve vragenronde

14.40-14.55 uur  Jeroen Boomgaard (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

14.55-15.00 uur  Korte respons RvdV

15.00-15.15 uur  Frans van Peperstraten (Universiteit van Tilburg)

15.15-15.20 uur  Korte respons RvdV

15.20-15.35 uur  Judith Wambacq (Universiteit Gent)


Pauze


15.50-17.00 uur  Respons RvdV, en aansluitend plenair debat

In At the Edges of Vision, Renée van de Vall re-examines the  
aesthetics of spectatorship in terms of new-media art and visual  
culture. The aesthetic experience of visual art has traditionally been  
described in terms of the distanced contemplation and critical  
interpretation of the work's form and representational content. Recent  
developments in installation, video and computer art have foregrounded  
the bodily and affective engagement of the spectator and, in  
retrospect, throw into question the model of spectatorial distance for  
more traditional art forms as well. But what does this development  
entail for art's potential for reflective, imaginative and  
experiential depth? Is art still capable of providing a critical  
counterpoint to the ubiquitous presence of sensational, yet short- 
lived media imagery when it speaks to the senses rather than to the  
mind?

In a thorough examination of examples from painting, film,  
installation art and interactive video, and computer art, Van de Vall  
argues for a tactile and affective conception of reflection, linking  
philosophy and art. Looking at a Rembrandt self-portrait and  
navigating through an internet art work have in common that both types  
of work rely on a playful, rhythmically structured, sensuous and  
embodied reflexivity for the articulation of meaning. This sensuous  
dimension of playful reflexivity is just as important in philosophical  
thought, however, as the transcendental condition for genuine, open- 
ended reflection.

Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Lyotard and  
Deleuze on the one hand and on new-media theory on the other, Van de  
Vall develops a performative phenomenology of aesthetic reflection,  
visuality and visual art, in order to rethink art's ethical and  
political relevance in present-day digital-media culture.


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Met vriendelijke groeten,


Prof.dr. Sander van Maas

Departments of Musicology
Utrecht University and
University of Amsterdam
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.a.f.vanmaas/
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