Johannes and Varvara,
I've only glanced through the thesis, and I must admit that my first
reaction to the term 'post-participation' was rather a world-weary one.
'Oh, here we go, another one of these coinages'. But actually, I think
it's quite a useful term: from what I can gather, Varvara uses it to
suggest the involuntary participation in 'metadata aggregation' and
'datavaillance' to which we are all now subject after our voluntary
interactions have taken place. You buy something on Amazon, or post
something on Facebook, or make some searches on Google - that's the
voluntary bit - but after you've completed those actions and forgotten
about them, the information-traces you leave behind are still being
harvested, manipulated and reused in the post-participation zone of the
technosphere. And Varvara's thesis, as far as I can make out, is
attempting to show the ways in which digital art is beginning to engage
with/mimic those automated procedures.
Edward
On 30/12/2018 17:50, Johannes Birringer wrote:
Greetings, and best wishes for a creative
and hopefully peaceful year to you all out there;
and thanks Varvara for sharing with us your interesting research,
i have not been able to read anything yet from your thesis
but wondered whether these terms now used, or proposed,
post-digital, or post-participatory, are helpful, or in what sense they
are helpful or possibly politically misleading, since one might argue we
neither live
in a post digital era nor do not 'participate' any longer or have any
impact or feedback energy regarding anything (system-to-system interaction
only?) -
technical and political control system can certainly be interfered with, have
you
watched the gilet jaunes in France? Perhaps you only address interactive art,
but
even there I wonder whether you would go as far as considering human relations
to
AI or machinic systems as being without any consequences?
with regards
Johannes Birringer
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Dear readers,
I have recently successfully depended my PhD dissertation at Estonian Academy
of Arts and thought to share the digital version of it, since topic might be
interesting for this mailing list audience.
Title: From interaction to post-participation: the disappearing role of the active
participant<https://eka.entu.ee/shared/429088/GsqzlotFPrFi1tdtAmVX1Wo8cxFWi4iQjntDJcO4n0mE5NAx8K8pef9V3AC9k3lB>
Supervisors: dr Raivo Kelomees (Estonian Academy of Arts) and dr Pau Waelder
(The Open University of Catalonia)
Pre-reviewers: Prof dr Christa Sommerer (Interface Cultures, The University of
Art and Design Linz) and Prof dr Moises Mañas Carbonell (Faculty of Fine Arts,
Polytechnic University of Valencia)
Opponent: Prof dr Christa Sommerer (Interface Cultures, The University of Art
and Design Linz)
The practice-based dissertation analyses and contextualises passive audience
interaction through the lens of post-participation. Research explores the shift
from active to passive participation in interactive art. By exploring
interactive art history and the discourse of identity within the field, this
dissertation investigates how artworks that demonstrate no audience
involvement, but still incorporate an internal system interaction with a data
source, are addressed. In other words, the research tracks down the interest
shift from human-machine to system-to-system interaction, and explores the
reasons behind this.
In this thesis, a differentiation is made between direct and indirect
post-participation. Hence, the selected artworks are analysed from the
perspective of concept, direct or indirect post-participation components, and
realisation. In addition, related artworks by other artists are introduced and
discussed under each subcategory of post-participation.
In the end, the dissertation contributes to the evolution of interactive art,
by analysing and contextualising passive audience participation in the form of
post-participation. Author argues that the concept of post-participation helps
to address the shift from an active to a passive spectator in the complex age
of dataveillance, an age in which humans are continuously tracked, traced,
monitored and surveilled without our consent.
Please find the PhD thesis
here<https://eka.entu.ee/shared/429088/GsqzlotFPrFi1tdtAmVX1Wo8cxFWi4iQjntDJcO4n0mE5NAx8K8pef9V3AC9k3lB>.
best regards,
Varvara Guljajeva, PhD
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