Cinema After Cinema, The Last Film We Will Ever Make: Where creation becomes simulation and authorship evolves into new forms of possibility
Cinema has always been a paradox, suspended between industry and intimacy. It is a machinery of colossal scale, yet capable of delivering the smallest tremor of human vulnerability. What we now confront, however, is not simply another technological shift within its history, sound, color, digital editing, CGI, but a rupture of its very ontology. Artificial […]
Bytes, Data, Backups, Uploads, Reviews, Photographs: The Role of Documentation and Preservation in Contemporary Art
We might say, exaggerating just a little and using this as a provocation to open the article, that all contemporary art is, ultimately, documentation. This is not a mere semantic shift but an observation rooted in the very nature of artistic languages, which arise and evolve with a specific function beyond communication: to record, to […]
From Relational Aesthetics to Aesthetic Relations: On the Value of Interaction in Contemporary Art
When Nicolas Bourriaud published his seminal text Relational Aesthetics in 1998, his thesis emerged as a necessary departure from the object-based and self-referential forms of 1980s art. The artwork was no longer conceived as a closed entity, but as a generative device for human relationships, capable of opening up a space of interaction that itself […]