van Treeck, Jan Claas
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Publication Access status: Open Access , Tech ImaginationsTechnologies and especially media technologies are pervasive in modern societies. But even more omnipresent are the imaginaries of modern technologies – what technologies are thought to be capable of or what effects they are supposed to have. These imaginations reveal a lot of the political and ideological self-descriptions of societies, hence the (techno-)imaginary also functions as a kind of epistemic tool. Concepts of the imaginary therefore have experienced an increasing attention in cultural theory and the social sciences in recent years. In particular, work from political philosophy, but also approaches from science and technology studies (STS) or communication and media studies are worth mentioning here. The term "techno-imagination", coined by Vilém Flusser in the early 1990s, refers to the close interconnection of (digital) media and imaginations, whose coupling can not only be understood as a driver of future technology via fictional discourses (e.g. science fiction), but much more fundamentally also as a constitutive element of society and sociality itself, as Castoriadis has argued. In the first part of the issue several theoretical contributions add new aspects to the discussion of socio-technical imaginaries, while in the second part a workshop held in January 2022 at the CAIS in Bochum is documented, in which the case of the imaginaries of “Future Internets” was discussed.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:23,2842 1707 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Zukünftige MedienästhetikA future media aesthetic is both a media aesthetic of the future and an aesthetic of future media. Media art has always explored unimagined and untried possibilities of various media, creating an imaginative glimpse of future media. Media art, one of the central art forms of the 20th and 21st centuries, saw it as one of its tasks to invent new media (Rosalind Krauss) - often precisely by resorting to technologies and processes that seem obsolete. Media art, then, does not merely reflect an underlying medium, as was claimed by (high) modernist aesthetics, and problematically enough, for all art. It first invents a medium. Media are thereby surrounded by imaginaries that precede their invention, accompany their enforcement, and resonate nostalgically in their disappearance. Media art can therefore be understood as a special case of such imaginaries - an imagination that is not (only) discursive, but material, demonstrative and performative. The planned issue gathers contributions that examine the practices of inventing future media through media art. One focus is on the important media art project Piazza virtuale by Van Gogh TV, which conceived the future medium of an interactive television at documenta IX in 1992, precisely on the eve of the spread of the Internet.Source Type:Periodical PartJournal:Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und KulturwissenschaftenVolume number:21,2736 1885