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

该项目利用数字图像的虚拟特性，测试和评估了将哲学和政治思想‘描绘’或‘可视化’作为艺术的批判性和美学意义。此外，通过实践指导的研究，该项目探索了这些可视化的综合(或组合)可能产生新的想法图像的可能性，并评估这些图像作为“想法”和“艺术”的地位和表现？将产生一系列三个数字图像，“描绘”或“可视化”源自哲学家贾尔斯·德勒兹的著作的三个哲学思想。这些思想是对先前存在的哲学思想的重塑，如莱布尼茨/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。这些想法的形象化将通过对话和咨询，与产生这些想法的领域的专家，以及与“心理意象”和可视化想法有关的艺术家和理论家进行。最终的图像将作为这些图像的合成(或组合)产生。这将在诺维奇画廊著名的EAST 09展览(包括公开演讲)上展示，并在阿尔斯特大学的ISEA 09(国际电子艺术研讨会)上以论文形式提交对研究的评估。这项研究还将通过一个网站传播。Gilles Deleuze之所以被用作这项研究的重点，是因为他的写作具有比喻(视觉)性质，以及他在创造新的“概念”时尝试综合先前存在的哲学模型。其目的是研究新的艺术生产和接受模式，这些模式挑战了预设的“视觉”和“语言”的二元组，这些二元组仍然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：“……我们字母文明中最古老的对立：展示和命名；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内的争论有关，这些争论考察了想法的视觉潜力和“意象”在思维过程中所起的作用，它是否为语言提供了语义基础，或者精神意象的想法或“用心灵的眼睛看”是否仅仅是习惯性的假设。其目的是探索文本和图像之间交叉发音的可能性，以及思想视觉影响的桥梁或合成潜力。该项目的成果将直接吸引广大受众，并引起广大受众的兴趣，包括从事注重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(特别是当代艺术和艺术理论领域以及致力于艺术与理论/哲学/心理学相结合的人)，但也包括当代艺术的更广泛的受众。EastO9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威奇艺术节上。在这一背景下，这项研究将得到广泛传播，包括在诺维奇美术馆举行的一次免费公开演讲。

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.