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The Visual Perception and Image research in F. Kittler's Digital Media theory

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2018, 55(), pp.201-230
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.55.0.07
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : October 31, 2018

Choi so young 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyze what human perception and body mean and role in Kittler's digital media theory. Based on Bergson's image ontology, Mark Hansen, who emphasizes the role of the body as an interface in the digital age, strongly criticizes Kittler's digital media theory. In this paper, the following two factors are defined as characteristics of the Kittler's perception theory. First, ‘reduction of information through media’. Helmholtz's psychophysical study, which can be considered the pre-history of the Kittler's perception theory, emphasizes the complexity and excellence of human visual perception mechanisms. Second, it focuses on the sensory experience associates with ‘Time-Axis-Manipulation’ and the ‘misuse’ of technology. Kittler emphasizes that the technology medium creates a new time stream through the encryption and decryption of information, which is inseparable from our perception experience. Kittler emphasizes that the digitalization is a process by the bit information system irrelevant to the human perception, but paradoxically, our perception experience can be broadened and renewed by that.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.