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hypertext as collage -seeing the invisible beyond the visible.

May 8, 08:12 PM · Penelope Dunbar

Hypertext when considered not in terms of the totality but in terms of the individual works, allows one apply the analogy with collage.

Spell your name with these objects George Brecht / Ben / Emmett Williams / La Monte Young / George Maciunas / Takako Saito / Geoffrey Hendricks / Joe Jones / Larry Miller / Bob Watts / Jock Reynolds / Albert Fine, Spell your name with these objects, 1976, plastic box containing diverse materials, printed card, 2.9 × 9.4 × 7.5 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.

Many contemporary artists are exploiting the rich variety of visual material available in flux on the internet. New media , digital collage This analogy can help me interpret my interaction with the webspace in terms of a fragments of different pieces of information being selected and negotiated from a vast collection of material . These fragments are then assimilated into ones experience. Subject has the task of creating order and meaning out of the chaos in a similar manner to the collage artist finding a synthesis between different composite elements of the image and inturn forming new interpreations of the relationships between the parts and the whole .Its a kind of hermenuetic cycle


Bernie Stephanus (2000)
La Couleuvre ( the Snake)
Collage
Juxtaposition and interruption are also the traits that Walter Benjamin welcomed in montage, seeing them as undermining the illusionism of realism and the camera and thus as tools of a critique of culture. he was trying to develop a mode of critical discourse that reduced theorizing and authorial interpretation to a minimum in favour of series of “images” (both verbal descriptions and graphic images including photographs) plus some commentary that would evoke the very dense world of nineteenth-century Paris and in particular the transformations in material and social relations brought on by “high capitalism.” This project was unfinished at the time of Benjamin’s death in 1940; the notes for it and some sketches and proposals have been published and translated into English as The Arcades Project attempt to present “dialectical images” one after the other without the connective and integrative speaking of an author. Professor VJ suggests Benjamin was essentially a blogger . Bruno Latour’s Invisible city Latour’s text illuminates the countless invisibles encompassed within the visibible. By hi-lighting the hidden relationships embedded within the city and its phenomenon, he presents a creative document , a verbal montage of facts and city fictions. The details, the fragments and the ideas which this visual and textural essay communicates , allow one to access a sense of being embroiled within the convolutions, the overlapping and imbrications of subject and object , human and thing , a material existence. Collage in all its forms seems to allow us to express the hybridity and interrelations we form with the world .


Image Marijana Zebeljan.2005

References

Benjamin, W (1999) The Arcades Project (translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin) Cambridge, Mass; London : Belknap Press.

Latour,B and Weibel, P(2002) Iconoclash translated by Charlotte Bigg et al.Karlsruhe [Germany] : ZKM, Centre for Art and Media ; Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press Latour,B.&Hermant, E (2004) Paris the Invisible City (translated by Liz Libbrecht)[online] Last accessed 6 May 2007

 

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