The Prosthetic Beauty - A Tendency of Contemporary Art toward ‘technostress’ or ‘technopleasure’

Su-Mi Kang

The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art

Abbr : JASA
2013, 39(), pp.3-39
Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
Research Area : Other Arts and Kinesiology

Su-Mi Kang ¹

¹ 동덕여자대학교

ABSTRACT

This essay was aroused from a big question: what kinds of perceptible and/or imperceptible relationships between human and technology are being constituted not only in science, technology, medicine and industry but also in contemporary art? In dealing with this question, my theoretical task was to approach eclectically the concept of prosthesis, born as it is from the particularity of specific histories, practices, and imaginations. I draw on historical and theoretical methodologies from prosthesis studies and art theories, aesthetics and art history, psychoanalysis and media theory, art criticism and cultural studies. Through this approach, I revisited the question of relationship between human and technology, which means not only the support, alternative, merge of technology to human but also the amplify, extension, augmentation, enhancement, and incorporation and/or excorporation of human through the power of technology. Especially, in this essay that question was represented as a kind of problem of tendency, technostress and technopleasure. But originally this research have an own aim in the field of art theory. Therefore, I needed to find the prosthetic tendencies of visual art dealt with new media and/or new technology in the center of contemporary art. This putted me on my way toward showing how Vostell's and Nam June Paik's art works in the 60s art world reveal the ironic and complex responses to new mass media, for example TV. And then I discussed the collective memory, remediated memory, or prosthetic memory(A. Landsberg) can be criticized by Sherman's and Kentridge's works of art. Finally, in reflecting the latest contemporary art practices, I argued that one of the aesthetic character of contemporary art is the prosthetic beauty. In this context, the prosthetic beauty means a kind of uncanny perception, the co-existence of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the technological fragmented and stitched re/presentation of the historical objects, images, texts, and bodies.
KEYWORDS

prosthesis , contemporary art , technology , technostress , technopleasure , relationship between human and technology , prosthetic memory , unheimlich , Wolf Vostell , Nam June Paik , Cindy Sherman , William Kentridge
REFERENCES (35)

[book] Benjamin, Walter / 1985 / Walter Benjamin Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. Ⅵ / Shurkamp Verlag

[book] 발터 벤야민 / 2007 / [단행본] 일방통행로 사유이미지 / 길

[book] Berardi, Franco / 2013 / 미래 이후 / 난장

[book] Brod, Craig / 1984 / Technostress: The Human Cost of the Computer Revolution / Addison-Wesley

[web] Daniels, Dieter / Television―Art or Anti-art? Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s / http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/massmedia/

[book] Deleuze, Gilles / 1995 / 철학이란 무엇인가? / 현대미학사

[book] Fiske, John / 2012 / 1900년 이후의 미술사 / 세미콜론

[book] Freud, Sigmund / 1976 / Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, In Gesammelte Werke, Bd. Ⅹ Ⅳ / S. Fischer Verlag

[book] Freud, Sigmund / 2012 / 문화에서의 불안 / 지식을만드는지식

[book] Freud, Sigmund / 1976 / Das Unheimliche, In Gesammelte Werke Bd. Ⅻ / S. Fischer Verlag

[confproc] Funk, Tiffany / The Prosthetic Aesthetic: An Art of Anxious Extensions / in; Mid-American College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications : 1~

[web] Hardt, Nicholas / 2000 / Freud, His oral neoplastic disease and oral, maxillary, and facial surgery / Hartmann, Frank, Medienphilosophie / https://www.aofoundation.org/Documents/freud.pdf

[journal] Jain, Sarah S. / 1999 / The Prosthetic Imagination : Enabling and Disabling the Prosthetic Trope / in; Science, Technology, and Human Values 24 (Ⅰ)

[book] Jones, Ernest / 1957 / Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol. 3: The Last Phase 1919-1939 / Hogarth Press

[book] Kaczynski, Thodore J. / 2010 / Technological Slavery: The collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski / Feral House

[book] Kelly, Kevin / 2011 / 기술의 충격 / 민음사

[book] Krauss, Rosalind E. / 2010 / Perpetual Inventory / The MIT Press

[book] Krauss, Rosalind E. / 2000 / Bachelors / MIT Press

[book] Landsberg, Alison / 2004 / Prosthetic Memory / Columbia University Press

[book] McLuhan, Marshall / 1964 / Understanding Media : The Extension of Man / Routledge

[journal] Morra, Joanne / 2002 / The Prosthetic Aesthetic / New Formations 46 (spring)

[journal] Nichols, Joshua / 2004 / Esotechnical Hyperstasis: An Excursus on the Technique of Total Iteration / in; International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 1 (2)

[book] Smith, Marquard / 2006 / The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future / The MIT Press

[web] Smith, Marquard / The Uncertainty of Placing: Prosthetic Bodies, Sculptural Design, and Unhomely Dwelling in Marc Quinn, James Gillingham, and Sigmund Freud / http://www.artbrain.org/the-uncertainty-of-placingprosthetic-bodies-sculptural-design-and-unhomely-dwelling-in-marc-quinn-james-gillingham-and-sigmund-freud/

[book] Stiegler, Bernard / 1998 / Technics and Time, Vol. Ⅰ, In The Fault of Epimetheus / Stanford University Press

[book] Tabbi, Joseph / 1995 / Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk / Cornell University Press

[book] Viola, Bill / 2005 / Video Black―The Mortality of the Image, In Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art / Aperture

[book] Wills, David / 1995 / Prosthesis / Stanford University Press

[journal] 강수미 / 2013 / 현대미술의 테크노스트레스와 테크노쾌락 / 현대미술과 미술관 / 서울시립미술관 (3)

[web] / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q91RZko5Gw / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q91RZko5Gw

[web] / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Py86U9gS6k / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Py86U9gS6k

[web] / http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks/exhibition/william-kentridge -i-am-not-me-horse-not-mine / http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks/exhibition/william-kentridge-i-am-not-me-horse-not-mine

[web] / http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201003051733245 / http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201003051733245

[web] / http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9688900/William-Kentridge-T ate-Modern-review.html / http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9688900/William-Kentridge-T

[web] / http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol1_2/nichols.htm / http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol1_2/nichols.htm
KCI Citation (0)

KJC Korea
Journal Central

Statistics

Tools