{"id":124,"date":"2010-05-24T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/?p=124"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:40:26","slug":"art-science-and-technological-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/blog\/2010\/05\/art-science-and-technological-mediation\/","title":{"rendered":"ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>******************************<br \/>\nDAB LAB<br \/>\nresearch gallery<\/p>\n<p>Invites you to a presentation by visiting PhD Fellow Pernille<br \/>\nLeth-Espenen discussing Arts, Science and Technological Mediation.<\/p>\n<p>Pernille visits UTS from the Department of Aesthetic Studies at Aarhus<br \/>\nUniversity, Denmark, please find her abstract attached for further<br \/>\ninformation.<\/p>\n<p>Interactivation Lab Thursday May 27 at 5pm.<br \/>\nLevel 4 courtyard, UTS<br \/>\nFaculty of Design, Architecture and Building<br \/>\nUniversity of Technology, Sydney<br \/>\n702 Harris Street, Ultimo<br \/>\nph 95148016<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dab.edu.au\/dablab\">www.dab.edu.au\/dablab<\/a> &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dab.edu.au\/dablab\">http:\/\/www.dab.edu.au\/dablab<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIATION<\/p>\n<p>In recent years artworks interpreting scientific representations and<br \/>\ntechnologies have occurred more frequently. As installation art they<br \/>\nare representing data or processes in nature, in the body, or in<br \/>\nsociety.<\/p>\n<p>What might be the motivation for this artistic interest in scientific<br \/>\nrepresentations and technologies? According to sociologist of science<br \/>\nBruno Latour, scientific knowledge is constructed through scientific<br \/>\nrepresentations, diagrams, and measuring devices. Furthermore,<br \/>\nphilosopher of technology Peter-Paul Verbeek argues that scientific<br \/>\nrepresentations and technologies are not neutral. Science is becoming<br \/>\nincreasingly influential in shaping how human beings interpret their<br \/>\nworld. Technologies and scientific representations are mediations of<br \/>\nreality and have ethic consequences as they affect our actions as well<br \/>\nas our conception of nature, of our own body, and of society.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian formalist Viktor<br \/>\nShklovsky argued that the purpose of art is to remove objects from the<br \/>\nautomatism of perception by making familiar objects appear unfamiliar.<br \/>\nIn my view, many of these artworks de-familiarize scientific<br \/>\nrepresentations and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In the talk, I will thus argue that by making unusual, poetic, and<br \/>\nunfamiliar scientific representations, artworks are investigating how<br \/>\ntechnologies mediate our actions and our perception of the world.<br \/>\nThrough this investigation they are also reflecting upon the ethical<br \/>\nconsequences of these mediations.<\/p>\n<p>BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n<p>Pernille Leth-Espensen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Aesthetic<br \/>\nStudies at Aarhus University in Denmark. Her PhD Scholarship is funded<br \/>\nby the Novo Nordisk Foundation. She is undertaking a residency at<br \/>\nSymbioticA at University of Western Australia until mid May. She was<br \/>\nawarded with Aarhus University&#8217;s Goldmedal for her Masters Thesis &#8220;The<br \/>\nStatus of Nature in Contemporary Art&#8221;. She is a co-editor of the<br \/>\nDanish Art Journal Passepartout:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pptout.dk\/tidsskrifter\/\">http:\/\/www.pptout.dk\/tidsskrifter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>****************************** DAB LAB research gallery Invites you to a presentation by visiting PhD Fellow Pernille Leth-Espenen discussing Arts, Science and Technological Mediation. Pernille visits UTS from the Department of Aesthetic Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, please find her abstract attached for further information. Interactivation Lab Thursday May 27 at 5pm. 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