1.3b Accommodating Others: Being a Medium

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts221/v4/7a/e6/a6/7ae6a6f0-65cc-0400-2921-8f1d00e65ac3/mza_15437542126545378975.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

Scripting for Agency

Katarina Ranković

31 episodes

3 days ago

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a lecture series based on Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday until 14.12.25. YouTube series: https://bit.ly/sfa-series Thesis PDF: https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf Thesis art: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

Arts

RSS

All content for Scripting for Agency is the property of Katarina Ranković and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Arts

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44032427/44032427-1752054324431-c0cc2eb711f26.jpg

1.3b Accommodating Others: Being a Medium

Scripting for Agency

26 minutes 56 seconds

2 months ago

1.3b Accommodating Others: Being a Medium

About this EpisodeWhat happens when the artist steps aside and lets something—or someone—else speak through them? In this video, we continue exploring the metaphor of the artist as a medium—someone who becomes a channel for external agency, impression, or character. Drawing on examples from Cézanne’s rhythmic brushwork, T.S. Eliot’s impersonal theory of poetry and Cindy Sherman’s photographic self-transformations, this chapter unpacks the ambiguity between passivity and agency in art-making. Can a self disappear into its influences? And what does this mean for how we understand authorship, creativity, and identity?About this Series

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.Links

Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-series

PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf

Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

References

- Blanchot, Maurice. The Book to Come. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

- Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” In Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader, edited by Sean Burke, 73–80. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

- Gell, Alfred. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting. Edited by Galen A. Johnson and Michael B. Smith (translation). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993.

- Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.

- Sherman, Cindy. “Characters, Cindy Sherman.” Art 21. Uploaded 1 April 2011. Online video, https://art21.org/watch/extended-play.... Last accessed 1 September 2022.

- Sherman, Cindy. “Cindy Sherman.” National Portrait Gallery. Retrospective exhibition, 27 June–15 September 2019.