Intensificare il non-umano: pratiche inclusive nel lavoro di Anicka Yi, Tomás Saraceno e Philippe Parreno

Authors

  • Vincenzo Di Rosa Università IULM di Milano

Keywords:

Bioart, Non-human, Artificial intelligence, Inclusive aesthetics, Post-anthropocentrism

Abstract

Over the past two decades, several artists have begun to explore the relationship between media technologies, subjectivity, and living ecosystems. Following often different methods and goals, they have highlighted a radical entanglement between art languages and issues related to the environmental crisis. These artists have moved in the direction of an "inclusive" aesthetic (Nicolas Bourriaud) as they have proposed a decentralized gaze capable of problematizing the main oppositions that characterize the habitus of anthropocentrism. The article aims to analyze three installations in which the intensification of non-human agency contributed to the creation of media environments in which viewers were invited to reconsider their relationship with otherness. The projects examined are Anicka Yi's Biologizing the Machine (terra incognita) (2019); Tomás Saraceno's Sounding the Air (2018) and Webs of At-tent(s)ion (2018); and Philippe Parreno's ANYWHEN (2016). The thesis is that one of the main strategies adopted by these artists has been to intensify, and thus make fully visible, the agency of non-human entities – such as plants and microorganisms – through coercion with the technologies of automation and artificial intelligence.

Author Biography

Vincenzo Di Rosa, Università IULM di Milano

Vincenzo Di Rosa is Research Fellow at IULM in Milan where he holds a PhD in Visual and Media Studies. His research straddles Art History and Visual Culture Studies, investigating the history of exhibitions and curating. He writes regularly for Flash Art.

Published

15-12-2022

How to Cite

Di Rosa, V. (2022). Intensificare il non-umano: pratiche inclusive nel lavoro di Anicka Yi, Tomás Saraceno e Philippe Parreno. Elephant & Castle, (28), 103–112. Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/198

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