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Eastern cultural heritage, digital remediation and global perspectives
conference contribution
posted on 2017-05-19, 13:42 authored by Christin BolewskiThe paper describes findings from a practice-based research project exploring cross-cultural influences between the West and the East by recreating the concept of Shan-Shui-Hua – the traditional Eastern landscape painting within the new genre of “Video-Painting” as wall-mounted flat screen video installa-tion. It uses concepts of Art Appropriation, Remedia-tion and Remix to re-investigate relationships of man and nature in Eastern traditional landscape art and philosophy and transposes the content to contempo-rary global environmental issues and digital visualiza-tion technology. Using the “other” or the “unfamiliar” allows a fresh access and new interpretation of well-known territory. As such cultural heritage is seen as an opportunity to explore new artistic boundaries and styles of representation within set commodities of contemporary (digital) image creation. Translating and adapting subtle aesthetics, rich metaphor and philosophy of Eastern traditions creates a powerful, subversive tool to address pressing ecological issues differently and allows alternative ways of seeing and thinking thereby detecting Western preoccupations.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- Arts
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ISEA2017 International Symposium on Electronic ArtCitation
BOLEWSKI, C., 2017. Eastern cultural heritage, digital remediation and global perspectives. Presented at ISEA2017 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales / Colombia, June 11-18th, pp. 289-296.Publisher
ISEA InternationalVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-04-22Publication date
2017Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
9789587591613Publisher version
Language
- en