Overview
A talk and screening programme of works for Edinburgh Art Festival selected by Kimberley O’Neill, 2016 Artist in Residence at The Telfer Gallery (Glasgow). This event considers how subjective experiences of attention and desire are manifested through media technologies, a theme related to new work O’Neill is producing for her solo show at The Telfer Gallery in January 2017.
Attention and desire have historically been defined as forces which can enact change. Spinoza used the term conatus to describe the fundamental energy that inhabits bodies and sets them in motion, an innate desire to persist and pursue. Networked media acts upon this energy inherent within the viewer to excite and engage them, yet the exchange between users and network might also generate a collective conatus, born of the relations between users, producers and media technologies.
Whilst media products are shaped, they are also a shaping force – a template or mould for our desires and relation to self. Considering the power relations within the user-media dynamic, the screening event will feature works that explore the peripheries of this relationship, considering how individuals modify or recuperate media-technology for their own ends and reflect on the conditions of mediated subjecthood.
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Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
21 Hawthornvale,
Edinburgh, EH6 4JT
