The Politics of Connectivity: Between Celebratory and Critical Approaches

Dana Papachristou

doi:10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2023.6.10.109

The Politics of Connectivity: Between Celebratory and Critical Approaches

Authors

Dana Papachristou Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2023.6.10.109

Keywords:

performance, live coding, connectivity, network, telematic, geo-location, offline

Abstract

This paper discusses the role of connectivity in networked artworks and performances, and attempts a critical approach towards the condition of connectivity. As a starting point, three artworks will be discussed as the main case studies: the online project Xenakis Networked Performance Marathon 2022; 2023Eleusis Mystery 91_Magnetic Dance in Elefsina European Capital of Culture, and; Spaces of Reflection offline PirateBox network in the 10th Berlin Biennale. Among the theoretical tools used here Deleuze and Guattari’s aesthetic theories can be traced, as well as more contemporary reflections on networks and the omnipotence of connectivity today. Furthermore, the role of institutions, funding operators and corporations will be examined in regard to their agency and intentions.

Author Biography

Dana Papachristou, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Dana Papachristou is a theorist and sound artist that focuses on the combination of artistic genres using new media. She studied music (piano, clarinet, composition), musicology in the University of Athens, and Cultural and Media Studies in the department of Media Studies, delving into “the relation of music and painting within Modernism, through the correspondence of Shoenberg and Kandinsky” in her Master’s Degree (2012). She also studied Composition with Theodoros Antoniou, Nestor Taylor, Fergus Curry, and Anastassis Philipakopoulos. She holds a PhD on the “Aesthetics of New Media Arts in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus and Milles Plateaux” from Paris VIII - Vincennes - St. Denis and the Ionian University (2020).

In the last few years she has participated in interdisciplinary research projects on contemporary music and its relation to other art genres, in various musical and geo-located projects, and has worked as a music teacher in education. She works with sound, music, walking, public space and performance and is a founding member of akoo.o group, with which she engages in the composition of soundwalks and audiowalks with the use of locative media.

She has been working as the education manager in the Creative Europe Program “Β-Air: Art Infinity Radio, music for babies, toddlers and vulnerable groups” for TwixtLab, in the Special School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Argyroupolis, Athens. She is currently an adjunct professor teaching Media Theory and Performance in the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries at the University of Thessaly, Volos, and is a postdoctoral researcher in the Ionian University.

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Published

15.07.2023

Issue

No. 10 (2023): Technological Aspects of Contemporary Artistic and Scientific Research I

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The Politics of Connectivity: Between Celebratory and Critical Approaches. (2023). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 10, 109-123. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2023.6.10.109