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- Title
Picnoleptic Horizons of the Knowledge Decade: Techno-Creative Communities in Turkey.
- Authors
Aydemir, Aslı Telli
- Abstract
The key concept introduced in The Aesthetics of Disappearance (2009) by Paul Virilio is picnolepsy - the condition of brief lapses in time, momentary absences of consciousness, in Virilio's words, fleeting instances of life escaping. Picnolepsy is produced by speed, and is a characteristic of the pace at which we live our lives. Once inspired by Wood and Landry's Intercultural City (2008), these spaceless time-lags/timeless space lags may well be turned into creative instances/zones acting as alternative public spaces in the urban. The author, thus, imagines that communal issues are best translated into the virtual realm through picnoleptic art works of multimedia and attempts at analyzing web 2 creative sharing platforms focusing primarily on, but not limited to communal video and photography. She, further, renders a theoretical crusade of the transformation of the public sphere via emerging picnoleptic citizens of the techno-creative web 3 era during which she questions the new understanding of the right to the city (Marcuse, 2009). During this theoretical crusade, she runs into artistic projects and interventions that question the impact of hyper-mediation on the individual city dweller and the citizen as the global occupier of time and space. Cyber-ethnographical research does not have a long history in the field of digital/visual communication studies. The author, in previous studies, signed up "anonymous accounts" in web platforms focusing on social issues as a passive observer and has reflected this experience by performing content, visual and at times discourse analysis. This sort of research attempt can be categorized under narrative readings and analysis upon networks of sharing. In this specific study, she reflects her active visits to the exhibition spaces, spectator comments as well as various positioning techniques for works of art and participatory ecologies.
- Subjects
TURKEY; DIGITAL communications; MULTIMEDIA systems
- Publication
Culture & Communication / Kültür ve İletişim, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 36, p105
- ISSN
1301-7241
- Publication type
Article