Picturing Ideas. Visualising the philosophical and political ideas of Giles Deleuze as art.

想象想法。

• 批准号: AH/G016518/1
• 负责人: John Russell
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG016518%2F1
• 关键词: Picturing; Ideas.; Visualising; philosophical; political

Utilising the virtuality of digital imagery this project tests and evaluates the critical and aesthetic implications of the 'picturing' or 'visualisation' of philosophical and political ideas as art. Further to this the project explores, through practice-led research, the possibility that the synthesis (or combining) of these visualisations might produce new images-of-ideas and assesses the status and performance of these as both 'ideas' and as 'art'?A series of three digital images will be produced 'picturing' or 'visualising' three philosophical ideas derived from the writings of the philosopher Giles Deleuze. The ideas are remodellings of pre-existing philosophical ideas, as follows: Leibniz/Aristotle's notion of the Monad, Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism and Nietzsche's eternal return. The visualisations of these ideas will be developed through dialogues and consultation with specialists in the fields from which the ideas are drawn, as well as artists and theorists concerned with ideas of 'mental imagery' and visualisation. A final image will be produced as a synthesis (or combination) of these images. This will be presented at the prestigious EAST 09 exhibition at Norwich Gallery (including a public talk) and evaluation of the research presented as a paper at ISEA 09 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) at the University of Ulster. The research will also be disseminated through a website. Gilles Deleuze is used as the focus for this research because of the figurative (visual) nature of his writing and his experimentation with the synthesis of pre-existing philosophical models in the creation of new 'concepts'.The intention is to research new formats of art production and reception which challenge the preset binaries of the 'visual' and the 'linguistic', which continue to dominate the discourses of contemporary art. As the philosopher Michel Foucault describes this: '...the oldest oppositions of our alphabetic civilization: to show and to name; to shape and to say; to reproduce and to articulate; to imitate and to signify; to look and to read.' This also relates to debates within the fields of philosophy, cognitive science and psychology examining the visual potential of ideas and the role 'imagery' plays in thought processes, whether it provides the semantic grounding for language or whether the idea of mental imagery, or 'seeing with the mind's eye' is merely habit-formed assumption. The intention is to explore the possibility of the cross-articulation between text and image and the bridging or synthesising potential of the visual affect of ideas. The outputs of this project will directly engage and be of interest to a wide range of audiences, including scholars/researchers across the arts and humanities engaged in practice-based and interdisciplinary theoretical work (in particular in the fields of contemporary art and art theory and those working on the integration of art and theory/philosophy/psychology) but also the wider audience for contemporary art. EastO9 is a high profile exhibition - publicised in national and international press, with an audience of between 9-12,000 visitors and active in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Within this context the research will be widely disseminated including a free public talk at the Norwich Gallery.

利用数字图像的虚拟性，该项目测试和评估了哲学和政治思想作为艺术的“图像化”或“视觉化”的批评和美学意义。此外，该项目通过实践主导的研究探索，合成的可能性（或结合）这些可视化可能会产生新的图像的想法和评估的地位和性能，这些都是“想法”和“艺术”？一系列的三个数字图像将产生'图片'或'可视化'三个哲学思想来自哲学家贾尔斯德勒兹的著作。这些思想是对先前存在的哲学思想的重塑，如下：莱布尼茨/亚里士多德的单子概念，卡尔马克思的商品拜物教理论和尼采的永恒回归。这些想法的可视化将通过与这些想法所来自的领域的专家以及关注“心理意象”和可视化思想的艺术家和理论家的对话和咨询来发展。最终图像将作为这些图像的合成（或组合）而产生。这将在著名的EAST 09展览在诺维奇画廊（包括公开演讲）和评估的研究作为一个文件在ISEA 09（国际电子艺术研讨会）在阿尔斯特大学。还将通过一个网站传播研究结果。吉尔·德勒兹是本研究的焦点，因为他的写作具有比喻（视觉）的性质，他在创造新的“概念”时综合了先前存在的哲学模型。其目的是研究艺术生产和接受的新形式，挑战“视觉”和“语言”的预设二元性，这继续主导着当代艺术的话语。正如哲学家米歇尔·福柯所描述的那样：“......我们的字母文明最古老的对立：显示和命名;塑造和说;复制和表达;模仿和表示;看和读。这也与哲学、认知科学和心理学领域的辩论有关，这些领域研究思想的视觉潜力以及“意象”在思维过程中的作用，无论它是为语言提供语义基础，还是心理意象的想法，或者“用心灵的眼睛看”只是习惯形成的假设。其目的是探索文本和图像之间的交叉表达的可能性，以及思想视觉效果的桥接或合成潜力。该项目的产出将直接吸引广大受众，并使他们感兴趣，包括从事基于实践和跨学科理论工作的艺术和人文学科的学者/研究人员（特别是在当代艺术和艺术理论领域以及那些致力于艺术与理论/哲学/心理学融合的人）EastO 9是一个备受瞩目的展览-在国内和国际媒体上进行宣传，观众人数在9- 12，000人之间，并活跃在诺福克和诺维奇艺术节上。在此背景下，研究将被广泛传播，包括在诺维奇画廊免费公开讲座。