Werewolves, Magnetic Fields and Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary

Hiebert, Ted

Werewolves, Magnetic Fields and Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary

dc.contributor.author	Hiebert, Ted
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-06T19:11:39Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-06T19:11:39Z
dc.date.copyright	2011	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-03-30
dc.description	Ted Hiebert is a Canadian visual artist, curator and theorist, and an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington Bothell. His artworks have been shown in Canada and abroad, most recently at Shift Collaborative Studio (Seattle, WA), the Xi’an Academy of Fine Art (Xi’an, China) and Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary, AB). Recent curatorial projects have included “More Often Than Always, Less Often Than Never,” (Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC) and the 2010 World Telekinesis Competition (Center for Serious Play, University of Washington Bothell, WA). He is the author of several articles and chapters on the imagination and digital culture, published in such journals as CTheory, The Psychoanalytic Review, Technoetic Arts and others. Hiebert is a member of the Editorial Board of CTheory. http://www.tedhiebert.net	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Ted Hiebert’s talk is an exploration of the technological imaginary, with a particular focus on the area of overlap between digital culture and artistic practice. Bringing together Roland Barthes’ theory of technology as an extension of theatre and Nicolas Bourriaud’s formulation of relational art, the talk examines spaces where technology might be understood as relational, deeply embedded in discourses of aesthetics and performance, but equally invested in maintaining the creative possibilities of social living. Situated amidst questions of theatre, technology and art, this talk is also as a series of reflections on the possibilities of posthuman living. Using three art projects as catalysts for the discussion, a theory born of photographic practice will be expanded, as a visualization of technology and of the aesthetics of posthuman possibility. This is the imagination seen technologically; technology seen photographically; and, photography understood for its deep relationship to the paradoxes of representation and performance. These are the stories of werewolves, magnetic fields and fingerprints of a technological imaginary — a story of delirious subjectivity, a story of imagination fields and a story of the encounter with darkness.	en_US
dc.description.reviewstatus	Unreviewed	en_US
dc.description.scholarlevel	Faculty	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Arthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory Digital Inflections	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Hiebert, Ted. "Werewolves, Magnetic Fields and Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 30 March 2011. Presentation.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://pactac.net/2011/03/werewolves-magnetic-fields-and-fingerprints-of-a-technological-imaginary/
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6750
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/	*
dc.subject	werewolves
dc.subject	magnetic fields
dc.subject	technological imaginary
dc.subject	fingerprints
dc.subject	Roland Barthes
dc.subject	Nicolas Bourriaud
dc.subject	relational art
dc.subject	aesthetics of the posthuman
dc.subject	Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.title	Werewolves, Magnetic Fields and Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary	en_US
dc.type	Video	en_US