Melita Zajc (Ljubljana):
Morphing. What is being morphed by morphing is the self itself
Abstract
1. As a particular music style, techno is outdated; as a common denominator for the use of new tech-nologies, from electronic music pioneers to contemporary electronica and digital hardcore, techno evokes the fact that there is more to it than just new technologies. That ist my point: I am not that much concerned about factually new technologies and new media, but about new notions of music, culture, arts etc. that parallel the penetration of these technologies into our every day lives.
2. The sc. visual arts recently expanded into the use of all kinds of non-conventional media, often fea-turing nothing visual at all. At the first glance, this is an issue of the dichitomy between visible and invisi-ble; however, in the context of what I call techno culture (part of which are young artists such as ETOY or P.D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spoky) - these works clearly demand the shift from phenomenological division of reality into what is visible and what is invisible towards more analytical concepts of social reality.
3. These concepts paralleled the industrialisation of our societies from the start, from Marx's »In 19th century man ceased to be a tool maker and bacame a tool« to Canguilhem's »Machines have their origin in the irrational« to Lacan's »There is alsways something in-human about humans«. These notions are still being refused as antihumanism (within theory, but also in a form of general contempt for »techno« music- and life-styles), yet my argument is that one has to take them into a consideration precisely in order to understand our present condition humaine.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache
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