TY - CHAP

T1 - The Intratemporal Work of Art

AU - Ag, Tanya Ravn

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - This chapter presents a temporal perspective on infrastructure aesthetics. It considers how networked digital infrastructures operated by algorithmic processes facilitate and materialize new structures of temporality through which art behaves and evolves in temporal relations between humans and technics. The paper takes off in the hybrid sphere with an art phenomenon known as the Unknown Cloud (Lundahl & Seitl, 2015–2057). This will guide a rethinking of the work of art within an intratemporal thinking framework and on what anthropologists and media theorists characterize as an anticipative technocultural horizon. Inspired by aesthetic anthropology’s methodological attention to both psychobiological and sociocultural functions of art’s aesthetic experience, the inquiry rethinks temporality with regards to art’s behaviors: from a behavioral dependency on the functions of timebased media, as the conception of time-based art entails; to behaviors of intratemporal relations between intersubjective human perception and interobjective machinic operations, with which Icharacterize the intratemporal work of art. The chapter seeks to qualify perspectives for an intratemporal thinking framework within which the work of art is cast as a phenomenon through which we can rethink and nuance our intratemporal relations with technics, worldly temporal narratives, and with our futures.

AB - This chapter presents a temporal perspective on infrastructure aesthetics. It considers how networked digital infrastructures operated by algorithmic processes facilitate and materialize new structures of temporality through which art behaves and evolves in temporal relations between humans and technics. The paper takes off in the hybrid sphere with an art phenomenon known as the Unknown Cloud (Lundahl & Seitl, 2015–2057). This will guide a rethinking of the work of art within an intratemporal thinking framework and on what anthropologists and media theorists characterize as an anticipative technocultural horizon. Inspired by aesthetic anthropology’s methodological attention to both psychobiological and sociocultural functions of art’s aesthetic experience, the inquiry rethinks temporality with regards to art’s behaviors: from a behavioral dependency on the functions of timebased media, as the conception of time-based art entails; to behaviors of intratemporal relations between intersubjective human perception and interobjective machinic operations, with which Icharacterize the intratemporal work of art. The chapter seeks to qualify perspectives for an intratemporal thinking framework within which the work of art is cast as a phenomenon through which we can rethink and nuance our intratemporal relations with technics, worldly temporal narratives, and with our futures.

M3 - Book chapter

SP - 204

EP - 219

BT - Infrastructure Aesthetics

PB - De Gruyter

ER -