Subjectivations

Much of Anna Munster’s argument is about trying to find a way to not have the same modernist restrictions on digital art and yet in doing so she maintains an emphasis on how this digitality enables new subjectivations. Her continual message is that this new and emerging digital aesthetic, which is "affirming the proximity but not collapse of bodies and digital technologies to each other..." is "shifting us toward new subjectivations and different relations to others." For her, this digital art "gives shape to digitality as a virtual ecology of bodies, technologies and socialities." My argument is for an emerging understanding of technology (technicity?) as an ecology of bodies (including, but not only, human), language, energy and movement that produces particular kinds of socialities.

With regard to performance, for chapter 4…
In speaking of the performance of the body in interacting with many digital artworks, this performance is discussed and read in terms of a performing self and how this embodied experience changes our understanding of what that self is. My reading, however, is to try and see this performance as a kind of dance in which the human self is not the main, central actor, but is part of an ongoing performance that is not focussed around this activity as human focussed.