2019 列奥纳多科学、艺术与技术系列讲座
该讲座系列为中央美术学院艺术与科技中心年度“媒体艺术大师班”组成部分
速度学想象：维利里奥、技术、艺术与后数字 |
Dromological Imaginations: Virilio, Technology, Art and the Postdigital
讲者：瑞安·毕晓普（Ryan Bishop）
日期：2019年10月24日 周四
时间：18:30-20:00
语言：英文（配中文现场翻译）
地点：中央美术学院美术馆学术报告厅
联合主办：中央美术学院视觉艺术高精尖创新中心、中央美术学院艺术与科技中心、中央美术学院美术馆、新时线媒体艺术中心
合作：列奥纳多/国际艺术、科学与技术协会
*本场讲座免费参与，请从美术馆西门入场
|关于讲座|
保罗·维利里奥（Paul Virilio）对当代欧洲思想的主要贡献在于，他对视觉文化问题的诠释不仅包括学术的、美学的、历史的、批评的、哲学的和人类学的，还包括尤为重要的社会构成和治理问题。对于维利里奥来说，视觉文化不仅仅提供了理解视觉或考察图像的方法，它主要提供一种理论、当代文化行为和介入的批判性场域，在这里，有关权力关系的研究建立在各个领域，被持续质疑与反省，从电影与精神分析理论，再到性别研究、酷儿理论、电视和电子游戏研究、漫画、传统绘画艺术媒介、广告和互联网的研究，它们同时又潜在地互相干扰。对于构建视觉文化以及常见分析命题的权力关系的研究，维利里奥一开始采用了不寻常的隐晦方法，在智识层面的获取形成了他研究中的一种城市主义倾向，有志于科技、速度和军事。维利里奥认为，这些规模较大的力量是视觉文化的主要塑造和影响因素，而对于标准领域的探究仅仅是它们的结果。
此讲座将讨论维利里奥一些最引人入胜的理论论述，包括速度学（Dromology）、消失美学（the Aesthetics of Disappearance）、事故（艺术、技术、全球）以及“失神”（Picnolepsy），并将考察特雷弗·帕格林（Trevor Paglen）、苏珊·舒普丽（Susan Schuppli）、赫巴·阿敏（Heba Amin）、维克多·布尔金（Victor Burgin）等人的特定艺术作品，由此从艺术、技术和理论的角度生发出对“后数字”（Post-Digital）的认知。后数字是一种将数字作为历史特定现象进行理论化和语境化的方式。正如后现代性历史性地批评回应现代性一样，后数字也部分由数字定义，同时在批判性、时间性维度与其进行接合。对于维利里奥而言，时间性和技术性的特性尤其重要：他对第一次世界大战中的图像/电影的形成，以及21世纪的技术媒介是如何运作与生效颇感兴趣。维利里奥不断回归到视觉文化，将其作为一个争论场域，用以展示城市化、技术、军事化和速度所形成的错综复杂的现象。
|关于讲者|
瑞安·毕晓普是英国南安普顿大学温彻斯特艺术学院全球艺术与政治专业教授，他与尤西·帕里卡（Jussi Parikka）在此共同负责媒体与技术考古学研究小组。他是15本书籍的作者和编辑，其中包括：《技术统治的想象力：艺术、科技和军工前卫》（Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde，合著，2020年）、《零度视野：巴特/布尔金和政治美学》（Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics，合著，2019年）、《跨越与超越：一个关于后数码实践、观念和机构的转媒体艺术节解读》（A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts and Institutions，合著，2017年）、《冷战遗产：系统、理论、美学》（Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics，合著，2016年）。他同时是超过50篇期刊文章的作者。他编著了两个书籍系列：“文化政治读物”（a Cultural Politics Book）以及“技术性”（Technicities），以及杂志《文化政治》（Cultural Politics）。此外他还是杂志《理论文化与社会》（Theory Culture & Society）的委托编辑，并在其编辑委员会任职。毕晓普的两本著述《文化政治学读本》和《波德里亚：追思与展望》均以中文出版。
《现代主义前卫美学与当代军事技术：知觉的技术》（2011）
Ryan Bishop, John Phillips和著
《冷战遗产：系统、理论、美学》（2018）
John Beck, Ryan Bishop和著
《零度视野：巴特/布尔金和政治美学》（2019）
Ryan Bishop, Sunil Manghani和著
Leonardo Art, Science and Technology Lecture Series
Dromological Imaginations: Virilio, Technology, Art and the Postdigital
Speaker:
Ryan Bishop
Date:
10.24.2019 Thursday
Time:
18:30-20:00
Language:
English (with Chinese translation)
Venue:
CAFA Art Museum
Co-organized by
CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute,CAFA Center for Art and Technology, CAFA Art Museum, Chronus Art Center
In collaboration with Leonardo / ISAST
About the Lecture
Paul Virilio’s major contribution to contemporary European thought has been to demonstrate that questions of visual culture are not only academic and cultural, aesthetic, historical, critical, philosophical, and anthropological questions but also extremely important questions of societal formation and governance. For Virilio, visual culture does not simply provide ways to understand the visual or examine images; it offers primarily a critical site of theory and contemporary cultural action and intervention, where relations of power in this field of study are both established in everything from film studies and psychoanalytic theory to gender studies, queer theory, television and video game studies, comics, the traditional artistic media of painting, advertising, and the Internet, and potentially disturbed. Virilio’s initial ways into these areas of power relations that constitute the visual cultural scene and its usual analytic topics are odd and oblique, which provide them their intellectual purchase, emerging as they do from his work as an urbanist interested in technology, speed and the military. These larger forces, according to Virilio, are the primary influences on and shapers of visual culture with the standard areas of inquiry being mere effects of them.
This talk will work with some of Virilio’s most evocative theoretical formulations, including dromology, the aesthetics of disappearance, the accident (of art, of technology, the global), and picnolepsy and will do so through an examination of specific artworks by Trevor Paglen, Susan Schuppli, Heba Amin, Victor Burgin and others to get a sense of the Post-Digital as it pertains to art, technology and theory. The Post-Digital is a way of theorising and contextualising the digital as an historically specific phenomenon. Just as postmodernity addressed modernity in a critical and historical manner, the Post-Digital intends a critical and temporal engagement with the digital while remaining partly defined by it. For Virilio the temporal and technological specificity is primary import: he is interested in why images/cinema in World War I, for instance, look as they do and how technological mediations of the 21st century operate as they do and to what effects. Virilio returns consistently to visual culture as a site of contestation manifesting the larger concerns of urbanization, technology, militarization and speed as inextricably intertwined phenomena.
About the Speaker
Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK), where he co-directs the Archaeologies of Media and Technology research group with Jussi Parikka. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde (with John Beck, Duke UP, 2020), Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (with Sunil Manghani, Edinburgh UP, 2019), Across and Beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts and Institutions (with Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka and Eliva Wilk, Sternberg Press, 2017) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (with John Beck, Edinburgh UP, 2016), and the author of over 50 journal articles. He edits two book series “a Cultural Politics Book" (Duke UP) and “Technicities (Edinburgh UP), as well as the journal Cultural Politics (with John Armitage and Douglas Kellner, Duke UP). In addition is a commissioning editor for the journal Theory Culture & Society (Sage) and serves on its editorial board. He also published two books in Chinese: A Cultural Politics Reader (co-edited with John Armitage and Doug Kellner) Beijing: Commercial Press (in Chinese, You Jianrong trans.. pp.368) (2018)and Baudrillard Now: Current Perspectives in Baudrillard Studies, Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2008 (revised and expanded in English Cambridge: Polity Press 2009).
《Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology： Technicities of Perception》（2011）
Ryan Bishop, John Phillips
《Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics》（2016）
Edited by John Beck, Ryan Bishop
《Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics》（2019）
Edited by Ryan Bishop, Sunil Manghani
