Networked proximities

“…  Effectively, an ambiguous play between hiding and revealing, simulation and authenticity, and intimacy and voyeurism runs through the artistic practices that emerge from digital networks. In this respect, attention must be drawn to Annie Abrahams’ body of performance work in which ‘communication’ and ‘intimacy’, in their myriad variations, become ‘problems’ in the Deleuzian sense of the term (Deleuze, 1990: 56)...”

from Networked Proximities Artcle for ISEA 2011 Istanbul by Margarida Carvalho

“This ar­ti­cle un­der­takes a crit­i­cal re­flec­tion on ex­per­i­ments with au­di­ence par­tic­i­pa­tion in artis­tic prac­tices in­volv­ing net­worked per­for­mance and cy­ber­for­mance. The per­for­ma­tiv­ity of we­b­cam­ming and, in a more gen­eral sense, the pre­sen­ta­tion of the self and par­tic­i­pa­tion in dig­i­tal net­works are con­sid­ered in the con­text of the cur­rent in­ten­si­fi­ca­tion of self-sur­veil­lance and par­tic­i­pa­tory sur­veil­lance on so­cial net­works.”

http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper/networked-proximities

Margarida Carvalho holds a BA and a MA in Communication Sciences by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL). She has been a faculty member at the School of Communication and Media Studies (Lisbon Polytechnic Institute) since 1998 where she currently lectures the courses of “Art and Communication” and “Semiology”.

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