On Media of Memory and Remembering
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | MAP - Media | Archive | Performance |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | paměť; média; performance vzpomínání |
| Description | The following examination of memory media, from chemical photographs to digital media and reenactments, deals with (human) memory and remembering concepts. These will be treated as metaphors and models, which serve to better understand the media of memory, as well as being a kind of blueprint for them. In other words, media will be metaphorically and literally regarded as representations, simulations, extensions, and prostheses of human memory structures and functions. The aim of this paper is to explore some parallel concepts of memory and remembering which animate our approaches to mediated experiences of the past, the absent, the virtual. The way media memories function will be illustrated by Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura, which he defined in close connection with issues of mediated or technologically reproduced experience, especially within his investigation of the possibility or impossibility of technologically representing an absent (original) work of art. Benjamin’s The Work of Art essay and especially his concept of the aura will be observed and scrutinized both within its historical context and the new digital media discourse. |
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