- Title
- New hypothetical continents: experimenting with u/dystopia
- Creator
- Matthews, Ben
- Relation
- Anywhere: Art at the Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity p. 40-45
- Relation
- Anywhere viii
- Relation
- http://www.projectanywhere.net/new-hypothetical-continents-benjamin-matthews/
- Publisher
- Centre of Visual Art (University of Melbourne) and Parsons Fine Art (Parsons School of Design, The New School)
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Over recent years, there has been a resurgent interest in utopia in the arts. Indeed, Vermeulen and van den Akker (2015) have described what they see as a “utopian turn” in contemporary art, where a “structure of feeling” that moves beyond the postmodern has emerged. Certainly, understanding the influence of utopia becomes increasingly important in the kinetic digital age where speed and surface play replace depth and reflection. Even websites, once examples of databased content to be explored over time, have been disrupted by the “feed” format of social media, where the most recent demands attention and our concentration is shifted ever forward into an urgent “data present” (Manovich).
- Subject
- utopia; dystopia; transdisciplinary art; multimedia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1474288
- Identifier
- uon:49258
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780648735403
- Language
- eng
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