Body sense
Human beings experience life in and through their bodies; With the body we are born and some time later die. The body, often before our consciousness realizes, registers how we are, where we are and what is beneficial or detrimental to us. In mediated presence, which is also dependent on the body, such physical cues are not easily available. Nevertheless, technology invaded human perception of the world around and even of the self. Because the body is the instrument that records it all, because it manifests our mortality and because it's sense for what is good or bad for us is so refined, physical presence is needed when issues of ethical nature are at stake.
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Artworks interrelating concepts of presence
A wide range of artworks have been created within the new media that can be explained through the…
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Witnessing Simulacra
The idea that the new technological media have changed our idea of presence and witnessing has been…
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Verfremdungseffect or V-effect
Questions of witnessed presence, then, lie at the core of Huyghe’s billboard. Witnessed presence
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Transmission over a distance
Another interesting aspect of Weber’s analysis of television in this context is that he links the…
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Billboard on a construction site in the center of Paris
Huyghe already addressed issues of presence and witnessing in his early billboard, Chantier Barbès
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Natural, mediated and witnessed presence
This paper does not intend to give an all-inclusive overview of presence theories, but makes use of…
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Huyghe's work and presence theory
Huyghe’s work was included in both the show and the catalogue of Future Cinema, but evidently he is…
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Presence and representation
The relation between presence and representation in the arts has never been simple, as the many…
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Being present in the world
"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now
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Representation
At the outset of this paper we identified representation as being one of the characteristics of…
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Availability
Heidegger notes that our primary interaction with beings[4] is through use or by communication if…
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Intentionality
Merleau-Ponty (1945/1962) developed the concept of intentionality to include what we would now…
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Merlau-Ponty on Intentionality
Merleau-Ponty (1945/1962) developed the concept of intentionality to include what we would now…
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Witnessing as a mode of being in the world
This paper considers what is involved when we witness an event from an (everyday) ontological…
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No false witnessing
Walker’s solution, by digging in history and archives and turning the objects she has found into an…
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Who is witnessing the destruction?
The point is ironically illustrated by some of Walker’s pieces that depict the biblical flood or…