Computational visuality and fissures of the post-digital: an approach to Trevor Paglen’s invisible images

Authors

  • André Góes Mintz Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2018v14n1p75

Abstract

This paper proposes to describe aspects of a computational visuality that is reflexively approached in recent works of the Unitedstatesian artist Trevor Paglen. Such effort aims at describing particular configurations of vision as a historic and sociotechnical construct, which today would be characterized by the increasingly diffused mediation of computer vision technologies. This matter is situated in relation to discussions regarding the ‘post-digital’, a category that seeks to name an advanced stage of digital technologies’ integration to contemporary life. It is then argued that Paglen’s work, through its reflexive approach of computational mediations of the visible, strains certain perspectives of post-digital aesthetics that characterized by a naturalization of digital mediation and the abandonment of the digital as a distinguishing category.

Author Biography

André Góes Mintz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando (2017-) em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, com bolsa concedida pela CAPES. Master of Arts (2017) em Media Arts Cultures pela Aalborg University (Dinamarca), Lodz University (Polônia) e Danube University Krems (Áustria). Mestre (2015) e Bacharel (2009) em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Foi professor da Associação Imagem Comunitária (AIC) de 2013 a 2015, atuando no no curso técnico em Produção Multimídia da Oi Kabum! Escola de Arte e Tecnologia em disciplinas da área de mídias e artes digitais. Foi coordenador do núcleo de audiovisual do Espaço do Conhecimento UFMG de 2013 a 2014 e assessor de audiovisual da mesma instituição de 2010 a 2013, responsável por atividades relacionadas à fachada digital e ao planetário digital fulldome. Foi coordenador do Marginalia+Lab, laboratório colaborativo de arte e tecnologia e membro do coletivo Marginalia Project, de 2009 a 2012. Tem experiência na área de artes e comunicação, com ênfase em audiovisual, mídias digitais e interativas e na relação arte e tecnologia.

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2018-08-01

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018)

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