Dirty bodies and clean technologies: the absent abject body in media arts culture

Download files
Access & Terms of Use
open access
Copyright: Haig, Ian
Altmetric
Abstract
My research explores why the abject body is not conceptualised within the idiom of media arts culture. Why is it missing and often edited out of the framework of art and technology? While media arts often rethinks the body and its augmentation and enhancements through new technology, the abject body is often nowhere to be seen. It would appear that the abject body has been disqualified as an aesthetic from the post- humanist paradigm of art and technology. In its place appears to be the transcendence of the body through technology, rather than the base level everyday reminder of our meat bodies. I explore what cultural conditions have led to the erasure of the abject from media arts culture. In addition I look at the cultural history of abject art and the abject body’s relationship to the emerging mediasphere. My own studio work attempts to reactivate, reinsert and reconceptualise the abject body within contemporary media arts.
Persistent link to this record
Link to Publisher Version
Link to Open Access Version
Additional Link
Author(s)
Haig, Ian
Supervisor(s)
Harley, Ross
Munster, Anna
Creator(s)
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Curator(s)
Designer(s)
Arranger(s)
Composer(s)
Recordist(s)
Conference Proceedings Editor(s)
Other Contributor(s)
Corporate/Industry Contributor(s)
Publication Year
2013
Resource Type
Thesis
Degree Type
PhD Doctorate
Files
download public version.pdf 1.74 MB Adobe Portable Document Format
Related dataset(s)