Cornelia Lund (2023): „Audiovisual Performance and the Concept of the Post-Digital“

Author: Cornelia Lund
Full Title: A Messy Affair. Audiovisual Performance and the Concept of the Post-Digital
Published: November 2023
Language: English
Pages: 10

Citation: Lund, Cornelia (2023): „A Messy Affair. Audiovisual Performance and the Concept of the Post-Digital.“ Kulle, Daniel/Lund, Cornelia/Schmidt, Oliver/Ziegenhagen, David (eds.): Post-digital Culture, http://www.post-digital-culture.org/clund2.

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Abstract

Audiovisual real-time performances and the concept of the post-digital are children of the same period: First coined by Kim Cascone in 2000, the concept of the post-digital emerged around the same time when computers became fast enough to process images in real-time, enabling artists to perform on or with them in real-time. This article explores the simultaneous development of audiovisual real-time performances and the concept of the post-digital. It examines the intersections between them, from the beginning of the 2000s when audiovisual performances remained mostly within purely digital aesthetics to nowadays more complex and critical post-digital approach to audiovisual aesthetics, dispositifs and discourses.

About the Author

Dr Cornelia Lund is an art, film and media scholar and curator living in Berlin. She has worked for years in research and teaching, mainly on audiovisual artistic practices, design theory, documentary film and practices, and de- and postcolonial theories (including at HU Berlin, University of Hamburg, PUC São Paulo). Since 2004, she has been co-director of fluctuating images, an independent platform for media art and design. From 2012 to 2018, she has been Senior Research Fellow in a DFG project on the “History of German Documentary Cinema 1945–2005” (University of Hamburg). In 2022 she was a Research Fellow at the University of Windsor (ON), and currently, she is a Research Fellow at the University of the Arts Bremen. She has curated and collaborated on numerous screenings and exhibitions, latest examples are Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design (2019), Disrupt Dismantle Desire (2021), Laboratoire Kontempo Kinshasa–Berlin (2021/2022).
Among her most important publications are Audio.Visual – Visual Music and Related Media (2009), Design der Zukunft (2014), The Audiovisual Breakthrough (2015), and Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design(2019).
For more information see: http://www.fluctuating-images.de/cornelia-lund-en