Gestures of the Possible Life

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Gestures of the Possible Life

IVIČIČ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

Gestures of the Possible Life

Autoři

IVIČIČ, Martina (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

MEDIA – PERFORMANCE 4 / GESTURE konference. (Brno, 19, - 20. 11. 2014), 2014

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

Umění, architektura, kulturní dědictví

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/14:00078894

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

gesture living and artificial performer; digital organism; emergence autonomy

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 18. 2. 2015 10:14, Mgr. Vendula Hromádková

Anotace

V originále

Gesture of the living performer is the movement to express an idea or meaning. What kind of meaning can emerge from the gesture of artificial performers? Scientists from various fields of study call these entities digital organisms, or programs capable of performing mathematical operations to simulate and study living systems. They offer the opportunity to test generalizations about living systems that may extend beyond the organic life that biologists usually study. Also computer artists employ the biological concepts of living systems in manipulating the code. They create programs to generate data, visualizations or to demonstrate the reproduction processes in a particular ways. Digital artists are not limited in creating art objects, but can make dynamic art objects that can themselves become autonomous entities. In this context, Frank Malina highlights the plasticity of digital information, when an image can be processed, visualized, simulated and networked. According to him, a different kind of reproduction is made possible within computer by software: he calls it post-mechanical reproduction (or more descriptive term is generative reproduction – similar to biological one). The artificial organisms with their autonomy perform their genuine roles in the artificial life narratives. They can do gestures similar to the human ones, because they dispose of technical skills but on the other side as Auslander reminds, they do not have potential to exercise interpretative skills. Here we enter the problematic situation, when the "artificial" in AL refers only to the component parts, not the emergent processes: "[…] the processes are genuine – every bit as genuine as the natural processes they imitate" (Langton). Should these life-like performances be understood as the living gestures? This problem of the theoretical biology deals with the living material structures of organisms and their inherent "logic" counterparts at the same time.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0803/2013, interní kód MU

Název: Proměny a konstanty soudobé filozofie

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Proměny a konstanty soudobé filozofie, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

IVIČIČ, Martina. Gestures of the Possible Life. In MEDIA – PERFORMANCE 4 / GESTURE konference. (Brno, 19, - 20. 11. 2014). 2014.

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