THE STATUS OF THE IMAGE AND THE WORK OF ART IN THE NETWORK CULTURE - proposal final Paper

THE STATUS OF THE IMAGE AND THE WORK OF ART IN THE NETWORK CULTURE

My paper will revolve around two topics. The first is related to the Image as a node in the network culture, the second to the imagination as a social practice and a power strategy.

Both of these topics address the status of the image and imagination in contemporary network, digital and global culture in relation to Art theory, and rise two mayor questions:

How the work of art – whose value and power is historically characterize by its uniqueness and site specificity – is challenged by the idea that an image gain power based on its movement, circulation and connectivity?

And, what is the role of the artist in an economy of image overproduction; in which imagination is no more only the purview of art and entertainment industries, but is also a social practice, and a power strategy?

The book that I will refer to for this paper are:

From the course:

Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.,
- Relating to the idea of the new role of imagination in social life, and imagined worlds as multiple worlds which are constituted by the historically situated imaginations of persons and groups spread around the world, and deterritorialization

Terranova, Tiziana. Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age.
- Relating to the idea of free labor, movement, and turbolence.

Ahmed, Sara. The cultural Politics of Emotion.
- Relating to the idea of object, words and images that became sticky trough repetition

Also I will refer to some notes took during Professor Muhanna lecture.
Relating to the idea of images as rebells tactic during the

From Art theory:

Joselit, David. After Art
- Relating to the idea of Epistemology of the search, image power based on replication circulation, population of images, and artist as archivist.

Steryerl, Hito, In Defense of the Poor Image, e-flux journal #10 – November 2009.
- Relating to the idea of the poor image as a copy in motion that constructs anonymous global networks.

Price, Seth. Dispersion.
- Relating to the idea of public art accessible because of its circulation and dispersion, rather then site specificity.