New Media Spaces and New Media Objects

Narvika Bovcon (2009) New Media Spaces and New Media Objects. In: Proceedings ELMAR-2009: 51st International Symposium. Croatian Society Electronics in Marine - ELMAR, Zadar, Zagreb, pp. 301-304. ISBN 978-953-7044-10-7

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Abstract

The paper deals with three artistic examples of humanistic transposition of smart technologies that reshape our reality. Computer vision technology redefines the classical notions of space that we enhabit and repostulates Shakespear's verse “All the world is a stage.” New media objects that simultaneously participate in our everyday life and in the “internet of things” pose new networked information on the state of their handling. The Forest of Arden, the metaphor used for the new mixed and smart reality, is neither a totality of paradise nor the Arcadia of easy living but a challenge for the scientists, artists and humanists alike. It is a semiotic forest, where the melancholic philosopher Jaques, confronted with people from all classes and with various problems, faces the given notions and tries to make new sense out of them.

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