by Artistic Research PhD Candidates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Supervisor: Jakob Lena Knebl
Within the framework of the envisaged research project, I examine postdigital interfaces as xenopoetic forms of affections from a queer-feminist perspective. The working title of this dissertation is Xenopoetic Compositions: The Affect-Body as Interface and explores the interface between the body, postdigital performance and image. Embedded in the discourse around Xenofeminism and the New Media Aethetics the interface is a conceptual analytical tool to analyse and unsettle the interaction between the body and algorithmic systems marked by processes of alienation and denaturalisation.
In my planned dissertation Xenopoetic Compositions: The Affect-Body as Interface I am interested in the interface between the body, affect and the prosthetic image. Embedded in the discourse around Xenofeminism, Agential Realism and the New Materialisms, the interface is a conceptual analytical tool to critically analyse the interaction between the body and algorithmic systems marked by processes of alienation. The xenopoetic is a term for capturing the inter- and transactions of human bodies with their technologies; an aesthetic articulation, which manifests itself performatively in affects, the porosity of bodily boundaries and the prosthetics of the body associated with this.
In this paper, I assume that digital interfaces are inherently ambiguous, since their relationship with the environment suggests an array of valid co-existing possibilities. Quantum physics provides an important toolkit for a better understanding of the deconstructive and speculative character of interfaces. Collectively, this combination of approaches will provide multifaceted perspectives on the ambiguity of interfaces, helping to expand the knowledge base engaged in exploring the world through digital interfaces and data.
Johanna Bruckner is an internationally exhibited media artist. Recent exhibitions include Ars Electronica, HEK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, ICA Milano, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, transmediale 2020, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the 57th Venice Biennale, the MAMCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova. She received several awards such as the re:humanism Prize for Art & Artificial Intelligence, 2021, the Pax Art Award for Swiss Media Art, the Erste Bank Kunstpreis 2022, and the Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien, 2022. She is currently a fellow at the Landis & Gyr Foundation for Visual Arts, London, and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva.