Paola Donatiello
paoladonatiello1@gmail.com
(Ri)scrivere la storia dell’arte
Scorpion Dagger: un caso di studio in formato .gif
VIRAL ART
The New Imageries of GIF Culture
Bologna, 25-11-2016
Who is Scorpion Dagger
(a.k.a. James Kerr)
http://scorpiondagger.tumblr.com
Why do research on Scorpion Dagger?
Scorpion Dagger as a case of self-reflexivity and self-historization
Ethnosemiotics: observing images as a necessary research procedure
How does a .GIF work? Paradoxical un(-and-)realistic movement.
Comparing .GIF to drawing, writing, illustration: mimesis and duration
Comparing .GIF to video: immediacy and data-weight
Comparing .GIF to photography: mimesis, immediacy and duration
.GIF and loop methaphor:
.GIF as duration of a key moment vs irreversibility of History
«Après plusieurs répétitions, l’auditeur oublie la cause qui a engendré le son et écoute cet “objet sonore” pour lui-même. Ainsi décontextualisé, l’objet est réutilisable dans des situations différentes» (Pierre Schaeffer).
Scorpion Dagger: irony and the art of making art
Is .GIF just another form of collage?
How does the sense of irony work?
From irony to desecration: re-writing History
Irony: re-writing and envisioning
Irony: Historical and everyday life
Irony as conflict between different discoursive spheres
Ironical discourse as the manifestation of a boundary
Ironic Klein, a sample of merging, the construction of a third point of view
The sense of history, a sample
Some outlines: Belting, De Certeau, Greimas, Scorpion Dagger
a tactic is a calculated action determined by the absence of a proper locus. […] The space of a tactic is the space of the other […] It operates in isolated actions, blow by blow. It takes advantage of “opportunities” and depends on them, being without any base where it could stockpile its winnings, build up its own position, and plan raids. What it wins it cannot keep.” (De Certeau, The practices of everyday life pp. 35).
References
Belting, H.,
1983 Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte?, München, Deutscher Kunstverlag (tr. it.: La fine della storia dell’arte, o la libertà dell’arte, Torino, Einaudi, 1990).
2001 Bild-Anthropologie: Entwürfe für eine Bildwischaft, München, Wilhelm Fink (tr. it., Antropologia delle immagini, Roma, Carocci, 2011).
Clifford, J.,
1988 The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art, Harvard, Harvard University Press; tr. it.: I frutti puri impazziscono. Etnografia, letteratura e arte nel secolo XX, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2010.
Clifford, J., Marcus, G.E.,
1986 Writing the culture: politics and poetics of ethnography, Berkley-London, University of California Press.
De Certeau, M.,
1980 L’invention du quotidien. I Arts de faire, Paris, Gallimard; tr. it.: L’invenzione del quotidiano, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2010.
1982 L’invention du quotidien. II Habiter, cuisiner, Paris, Gallimard.
Greimas, A.J. & Courtés, J.,
1979 Sémiotique. Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage, Paris, Hachette.
1986 Sémiotique. Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage II, Paris, Hachette.
Goodman, N.,
1978 Ways of worldmaking Goodman, Indianapolis-Cambridge, Hackett (tr. it.: Vedere e costruire il mondo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2008).
Kerr, J.,
2014 Scorpion Dagger James Kerr. Do you like relaxing?, Montreal, Anteism.
Manovich, L.,
2001 The language of new media, Massachussets Istitute of Technology, tr. it., Il linguaggio dei nuovi media, Olivares, Milano, 2002.
Scorpion Dagger
Tumblr || Facebook
Paola Donatiello
Intervista a James Kerr aka Scorpion Dagger (Doppiozero)
versione italiana || english version
How to pronounce GIF
http://howtoreallypronouncegif.com/