The chapter focuses on the issue of transmedial and sensory exchange in the context of digital culture and biometric technology. It analyzes critically the epistemic claims behind the various brain... Show moreThe chapter focuses on the issue of transmedial and sensory exchange in the context of digital culture and biometric technology. It analyzes critically the epistemic claims behind the various brain-scanning technologies, focusing on the status of the inner images that underlie cognitive activity. Multimedia performances and artistic experiments designed in collaboration with neuroscientists open up new dimensions in the discussion of translation between different sensory modalities, as well as translation between human perceptive apparatus and computational systems. Engaging the methodologies of contemporary image science and critical neuroscience, the paper shows how artistic scenarios help to both localize and expand our understanding of mental imagery and to offer an alternative to the existing correlations-based approach. Show less
The telematic prosthesis increasingly reshapes our sense of the self and its relation to its surroundings. Today’s tracking technologies (GPS, geotag- ging) enable mobile, dynamic and more... Show moreThe telematic prosthesis increasingly reshapes our sense of the self and its relation to its surroundings. Today’s tracking technologies (GPS, geotag- ging) enable mobile, dynamic and more individual mapping that shortens the gaps between the panopticism, universalism and abstraction of clas- sical maps and the real physical experience. Artistic practices employing navigation techniques explore the potential of individual everyday move- ment to generate and perform new sensory modes of existence and meta-level narratives that can often be referred to as “sublime.” Applied to digital practices, this term describes decentering, dislocation, and disrup- tion of conventional contexting cues, challenging the reliability of ordinary senses for locating one’s subjective and objective “self,” enhancing the feel- ing of potentia. The sound overlay creates additional interruption of natu- ral expectations, the liminal in-between space within the created mobile soundscape. The paper demonstrates the diversity of artistic strategies in which mediation through geotagged sound constitutes transgression into augmented virtual space. Show less
