JoLMA The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

Rivista | JoLMA
Fascicolo | 5 | 1 | 2024
Articolo | Mural and Landscape Painting Revisited

Mural and Landscape Painting Revisited

The Art of Mapping the Digital Technosphere

Abstract

The elusive dimensionality and ecologically entangled materiality of clouds have always made it hard to map and visually depict them. But while visual artists of the Romantic and Impressionist eras at last managed to relate the ecological entanglement of man-made clouds and their 'natural' counterparts, the 21st century is facing another challenging addition to the almanac of clouds: the cloud of the digital technosphere. In this article, artistic attempts at capturing its dimensional elusiveness and invisible ecological entanglement will be presented which draw both on previous representational strategies and on innovative practices to render visible this quasi-autonomous force of planetary magnitude.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 29 Gennaio 2024 | Accettato: 10 Aprile 2024 | Pubblicato 26 Luglio 2024 | Lingua: en

Keywords HyperobjectsEcologyDigitalisationCloudsArt


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