Transmission in Motion

Seminar Blogs

“Art, Technē, and the Question of Aura” – Dennis Jansen

During his recent TiM lecture, philosopher Jason Tuckwell argues that Walter Benjamin’s Marxist analysis of material production in “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” ([1936] 2008) is symptomatic of a more general tendency to reduce art solely to its mode of production, and thereby foregoes the question of how art…

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“Art without an aura: Techne in the digital age” – Angelo Zinna

Jason Tuckwell’s lecture “Agency and technē in creative practice” drew attention to the role of technical skill in the production of art, questioning whether it is worth revisiting the traditional view of “art as aesthetics” rooted in the Platonic concept of poesis. By juxtaposing the “particular” character of technē to the “universal” essence of nature,…

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“The question concerning technē” – Christl de Kloe

In the first Transmission in Motion seminar of this year called“Agency and Technē in Creative Practice,” Dr. Jason Tuckwell critiqued contemporary understandings of ‘the work of art’. He started by explaining that there are generally two ways of thinking about art which stem from the Greeks; the first is poiesis, where art is understood as…

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“Function of Exploration” – Aishwarya Kumar

In his 2012 TedEd talk, marine biologist David Gallo illustrates the idea of exploration by stating that we, as humans have ‘explored’ only 5% of what is in the oceans. By exploration, he means to “go peek and see what’s there” and uncover, reveal, bring to the front, what was invisible or unknown[1] and that,…

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“The Gesture of Letting Go” – Laura Jimenez Rojas

The last TiM seminar of this year “The Art of Performing Science” brought a new perspective to think of the meeting of two -apparent- separate worlds: art and medicine. Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education and director of the Centre For Performing Science at Imperial College London, presented how by the gathering of artists and…

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“Sewing, sewing, sewing” – Jose Hopkins B.

In her book Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide, Mieke Bal (2002) presents us with a particular way to understand the performance of concepts and its relation with subjects and objects. She argues that concepts are not fixed as they travel between disciplines, individual scholars, geographically dispersed academic communities and so on. Therefore,…

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“A contextualization of interdisciplinarity” – Gido Broers

What is context? Since context is a concept that can be applied to many domains and functions as a base for interdisciplinary research (and practice), it is relevant to start here with a brief description of this concept, as described by Kaiyu Wan: The word “context” is derived from the Latin words con (meaning “together”)…

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“The open dramaturgy of a digital archive project” – Gido Broers  

Eef Masson addressed in her lecture “Experience and Experimentation in the Sensory Moving Image Archive Project” several issues with regards to digital archives, and more specifically in the context of the Sensory Moving Image Archive Project. The aim of this project is “to establish how these groups [artists, the creative industries and researchers] can explore,…

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