Materiality
“distinguish “material” from “natural”; this is a material system that manifests structures in its specific, local environment.”
Reference:
Interview with Mitchell Whitelaw
Further thinking:
perception from cultural text -> data -> visualize -> remediation <-> materiality/immateriality
further updated on 22-Nov-08:
“through the material processes of objectification, agency and habitus, power, and representation to get to the heart of the matter—immateriality”
“Materiality is all about grappling with the “interdigitating” of persons, bodies, things, and cognition”
Ref: Marcia-Anne Dobres:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v047/47.4dobres.html
-> materiality/dematerialization/immateriality
“the ‘de’ in dematerialization refers to a conceptual – although not in the sense of transcendental ideas – approach to materiality. In opposition to the understanding that dematerialization implies an aesthetic according to which the conceptual is superior to, or over-determines, materiality I interpret dematerialization as an aesthetics in which the conceptual is always already material.”
“distinguish between dematerialization as an act, and immateriality as a condition”…”dematerialization designates a conceptual approach to materiality whereas immateriality designates the new material condition – or just the new materiality”
“Immateriality – along with its derivative notions immaterial art and immaterial aesthetics – is a prevailing notion in current discussions on art in the context of new media art and information technology.”
Reference:
Presentation ‘Conceptualizing Materiality’ – Jacob Lillemose – Symposium Curating new media art – 2005: http://www.bamart.be/pages/detail/nl/2312
-> materiality and immateriality
“Materiality is defined currently as “that which constitutes the ‘matter’ of something: opposed to formality; the quality of being material; material aspect or character; mere outwardness or externality.”
Reference:
JeeHee Hong , 2003: http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/material.htm
Further reading:
Gumbrect, Hans Ulrich and Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig eds. 1994. Materialities of Communications, translated by William Whobreym. Stanford University Press.
Hegel, George Willhelm Friedrich. 1998. Aesthetics, translated by T.M. Knox. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press.
