Milos Trakilovic: A Shot In The Arm
Thu 05 Oct
|The Studio
Lecture


Time & Location
05 Oct 2017, 14:00 – 14:30
The Studio, 68 Broadwick St, Soho, London W1F 9QZ, UK
About the event
A Shot In The Arm uses Chris Burden’s iconic performance from 1971 Shoot as the main motive to reproach the human body under today's digital capitalism. I take up Tiziana Terranova’s formulation that the digital turnover has been marked by a shift from representation into information in order to describe the effects digitization takes on notions of representation. On the level of representation both the image and the body can be understood as embodied containers of information, making them a valuable currency in today's digital economy. Under the conditions of hypermediation these forms of representation are continuously shredded only to be recomposed and recombined on all sorts of levels.
It has therefore become persistently challenging to mediate and make sense of our surrounding as the digital drive diffuses both the image and body to coded content - information. I describe how these processes influence the growth of financial flows and…