- Title
- Melting into the texture of everyday life
- Creator
- Messham-Muir, Kit
- Relation
- Ecologies of Invention p. 70-77
- Relation
- http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781743323571
- Publisher
- Sydney University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In only the most recent years, communications technologies have evolved rapidly and now are at the centre of social life in Western culture. Technologies now respond to us in the most intuitive ways and have become omnipresent to the extent that they are becoming invisible. This ubiquitous networked culture is in turn changing our attitudes to information and knowledge, and, importantly, our expectations of our participation within them. Knowledge is now understood less as a static entity to be transmitted and more as an active relational process, taking place within social connections. This chapter looks at the ways in which recent and rapid evolutions in technology profoundly impact attitudes and expectations at a social level and, in turn, affect the ways in which knowledge is sorted and synthesised in this emerging sociotechnological paradigm. In what ways might these shifts be changing the relationship between audiences and contemporary art? This chapter begins to address this question by considering the responsive works of artist John Tonkin. Based in Sydney, Tonkin's works respond to the physical presence of their audience and, in the case of his public work Nervous System, acts as a catalyst for social connectivity. I will suggest here that our networked culture is actually becoming less about technology and more about synthesising knowledge at the social scale.
- Subject
- networks; connectivity; sociotechnological; contemporary art
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055806
- Identifier
- uon:15939
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781743322505
- Language
- eng
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