Copyright Statement This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the author's prior consent. 1 DUCHAMP MEETS TURING: ART, MODERNISM, POSTHUMAN By GABRIELA GALATI A thesis submitted to the University of Plymouth in partial fulfilment for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Faculty of Arts School of Art & Media November 2015 2 Acknowledgements I am thankful to my advisors Prof. Antonio Caronia, Prof. Pier Luigi Capucci, Prof. Derrick De Kerckhove, Prof. Francesco Monico and the T-Node PhD colleagues and staff, Prof. Roy Ascott, Prof. Mike Phillips, and all the other Planetary Collegium members that I’ve met during my research for their support and thoughtful criticism throughout the development of this thesis. I want to thank especially Prof. Dr. Hugo Mancuso for his continuous support and trust since the beginning of my academic career; my family (Maria del Carmen, Melina, Liliana and Maria Rosa) and friends for being there, even from afar. My warmest gratitude is extended to Amos, my partner in life and best peer-reviewer, without your insightful comments this text wouldn’t be what it is. 3 Author’s Declaration At no time during the registration for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy has the author been registered for any other University award. Work submitted for this research degree at the Plymouth University has not formed part of any other degree either at Plymouth University or at another establishment. This study was financed with the aid of a partial studentship from NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. Relevant scientific seminars and conferences were regularly attended at which work was often presented; external institutions were visited for consultation purposes and several papers prepared for publication. Publications (or presentation of other forms of creative and performing work): Relevant Publications: 2016 Significante fluttuante, inconscio tecnologico e soggetto digitale. In: Bianchi, A. and Leghissa, G. eds. Mondi Altri. Processi di soggettivazione nell’era postumana a partire dal pensiero di Antonio Caronia. Milano: Mimesis. 4 (Upcoming) Book review: Laruelle: Against the Digital, Leonardo Journal, 49 (2). 2015 Book review: Laruelle: Against the Digital, Leonardo Reviews, June [Internet]. Available from: http://leonardo.info/reviews/jun2015/galloway-galati.php 2014 Book review: Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture, Leonardo Reviews, November [Internet]. Available from: http://leonardo.info/reviews/dec2014/papaetros-galati.php. Galati, G.-Bianchi, Amos, A. Screen is a Screen is a Screen: A Screen is not an Image, Techno-Ecologies II-Acoustic Space (12), Riga: RIXC, pp. 326-242. Book review: Real Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World, Leonardo Reviews, October [Internet]. Available e from: http://leonardo.info/reviews/oct2014/gehmann-galati.php. Bianchi, Amos-Galati, Gabriela, The Threshold. An iconological analysis. In: Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic, Zurich: University of Zurich, pp. 19-28. 5 New Media, Old Publicness, Doppiozero, July. [Internet] Available from: http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/faceoff/new-media-old-publicness Nuevas tecnologias y las extesiones prostéticas del 'yo’, AdVersuS, X (25), December 2013/April 2014, pp. 212-219. Thesis on the Interface-Database Dichotomy, NoemaLab, February. [Internet]. Available from: http://noemalab.eu/ideas/thesis-on-the- interface-database-dichotomy/ 2013 The Electronic Representation of Information: New Relationships Between the Virtual Archive and its (Possible) Referent, Far and Wide, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 18 (2), pp.182-187. Sulla dicotomia interfaccia-database, Doppiozero, December [Internet]. Available from: http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/faceoff/sulla- dicotomia-interfaccia-database. Interfacce: Da Brunelleschi a iOS8, Doppiozero, October [Internet]. Available from: http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/faceoff/interfacce- da-brunelleschi-ios8 2012 6 Non-linear Thinking: Camilo's Theater of Memory & Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne as Archive Models for the (Virtual) Conservation and Communication of Knowledge, Limina 2, pp. 157-162. Presence, Telepresence, Images and the Self, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 9 (2+3), Intellect Journals, pp. 129-134. 2011 Modelos no lineares, historia del arte y de los nuevos medios, AdVersuS VIII (21), December, pp. 210-219. La digitalizzazione e uploading dell’evento artistico, D’ARS (207), Autumn. Presentations and Conferences Attended: 2015 October 8-10 RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015: Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media- RIXC Center for New Media Culture. Paper title: Art, Modernism, Posthuman. June 5-6, Logic Lane: Giornate di studio Antonio Caronia- Accademia di Brera di Milano. Paper title: Significante fluttuante e inconscio tecnologico. 7 2014 April 25th , Journeys Across Media, Conference for postgraduate researchers - University of Reading, UK. Paper title: Digitalisation and Memory as Event and Repetition. 2013 October 8-10, Media Art Histories-RENEW- Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Latvia. Paper title: The Threshold-Part III (Co- authored with Amos Bianchi). 2012 September 13th -16th Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic-Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF) - University of Zurich, Zurich, CH. Paper title: The Threshold (Co-Authored with Amos Bianchi). May 1st-4th Consciousness Reframed 13- Technoetic Telos: Art, Myth and Media Conference- Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Keffalonia, Greece. Paper title: Presence, Telepresence, Images and the Self. April 14th Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde- The American University of Paris, Paris, France. Paper title: Marcel, no more painting; go get a job. 8 2011 November 18th-19th Always Already New. Deep Involvement in Education- NABA, Planetary Collegium M-Node and NoemaLab. Presentation title: Thesis on the Interface-Database Relationship. 2011 October 6ht Culture Lab- Newcastle University, UK. Invited Lecturer. Presentation title: Thesis on the Interface-Database Relationship. September 28th-October 1st International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Rewire - FACT-John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. Paper Title: Non-linear Models: Camillo's Theatre of Memory & Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas as Models for Thinking and Writing on New Media Art History. September 14th-21st ISEA Istanbul- Sabanci University, Turkey. Paper title: The Electronic Representation of Information: New Relationships Between the Virtual Archive and Its (Possible) Referent. February 19th TATE Gallery Liverpool, - FACT. The Electronic Superhighway: Inter-art Practice, Reality and the Information Age Postgraduate Research Forum. Paper title: The Electronic Representation of Information: New Relationships Between the Virtual Archive and its (Possible) Referent. 2010 9 December 16-17-18 NABA, Milan, Symposium Planetary Collegium M- Node in partnership with NoemaLab. Paper title: Non-linear Thinking: Camilo's Theatre of Memory & Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne as Archive Models for the (Virtual) Conservation and Communication of Knowledge. Word count of main body of thesis: 73.292 Signed…………………………………… Date: November 24, 2015. 10