Abstract

A custom-made media installation, diplorasis, will be used to explore the body in digital media. This mediated body attempts to re-think how the Deleuzian time-image is translated from its cinematic confinement to the space of new media. In diplorasis the digitized time-image becomes more directly incorporated with-in the bodily schema. Consequently, the thinking of the virtual and actual space of the body in diplorasis enables a questioning of bodily space-time, and particularly the relation between self and digitized self-image. It is thus crucial to re-frame how this digitized mediated body is distinct from a conventional notion of a metric and habitual space—one that is reinforced by, for example, the medium of linear perspective. The articulation of the mediated body will be used to in-form and extend Elizabeth Grosz’s paradoxical reading of embodiment and utopia, by revisiting the notions of utopia as eu-topic/ou-topic. The spatio-temporality of the topos must be re-considered before utopia. Foucault’s analogy of the mirror will then serve to superimpose the dual and slippery relations between utopia and the heterotopic. The digitized mediated body will thus seek to explore emerging ways by which to consider the utopic by conflating embodiment, time and space within an electronic topos. It is argued that as the sensing and cognitive body becomes increasingly pliable in relation to technological mediations, our very understanding of space-time is changing.

Highlights

  • This article investigates the spatio-temporality of the body in digital media, and utilizes this analysis to provide a framework from which to rethink utopia

  • How might the space-time of utopia be rethought in light of the image of time produced by digital media constellations such as diplorasis? I attempt to investigate the conceptual notions implicit with-in utopia (‘place’, ‘non’, ‘good’) in relation to the space-time of the mediated body

  • The spatio-temporal affects of the mediated body have been outlined in order to re-think topia before utopia

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Summary

George Themistokleous

A custom-made media installation, diplorasis, will be used to explore the body in digital media. This mediated body attempts to re-think how the Deleuzian time-image is translated from its cinematic confinement to the space of new media. In diplorasis the digitized time-image becomes more directly incorporated with-in the bodily schema. The thinking of the virtual and actual space of the body in diplorasis enables a questioning of bodily space-time, and the relation between self and digitized self-image. The spatiotemporality of the topos must be re-considered before utopia. The digitized mediated body will seek to explore emerging ways by which to consider the utopic by conflating embodiment, time and space within an electronic topos. It is argued that as the sensing and cognitive body becomes increasingly pliable in relation to technological mediations, our very understanding of space-time is changing

Introduction
Digital media and perspectival representation
The image of time in cinema
An image of the Utopic
Conclusion
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