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Dasein: ‘To be there’
Utopia and Techne in the Happening of Life
Question: How does an engagement with the present bring about utopia?
Answer: As we engage with the present we are able to shape our world and bring about ‘utopia’, not as an idealistic and regimented system, but an adaptive multiplicity of individuals and networked trajectories.
The activities of new media arts and technologies consolidate this rhizomic shift, providing ideas of what this ‘utopia’ can mean – augmenting our reality, not disjoining it.
The Utopian Vision: a molecular shift in the eternal present that allows for an organic system of communication and interconnectivity has occurred.
- ‘Engagement’ constituting the activities of contemporary art and technologies
- The ‘present’ as a system of interconnectivity within a rhizomic network.
Also, the ‘present’ as as notion of time derived from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity -the ‘eternal present’, later explored by Paul Virilio - ‘Utopia’ as a means of interconnectivity, utilizing the new layer of the human environment, that of cyberspace
This paper will explore how new technologies demonstrate a change in systematic tendencies, those of the molecular and the nanotechnological, within th Rhizome, which in tun consolidates a shift in human interconnectivity.
Modern art has acted as a means to reflect and confront technological developments, and provides society an avenue for monitoring such developments. Art will be used in this thesis as a way of exploring what is possible in the realm of cyberspace, and of exploring what ‘new’ may mean.
