Tweed, C (2019) 'Fiction Machines: Oporavak.' The International Journal of Creative Media Research, 1.
Abstract
In this statement I consider the single screen video work Oporavak (2016), a work that has been shown in galleries, film festivals and media art biennales. The video is part of an ongoing research project called Fiction Machines where I interrogate how fictional methods can be used to produce works that propose new forms of machine that are able to escape, subvert and re-write contemporary control technologies, their content and modulation mechanisms. I begin by providing the theoretical context for Oporavak, highlighting the new forms of virtualised and biopolitical control that are enabled by networked computational writing machines powered by informatics and affective modulations. I then look at the fictional methods deployed in the production of the work including the speculative recycling of appropriated material and the deployment of the video as a form of subversive re-writing machine that both enhances and destabilises control mechanics. Finally, I consider how the video uses affective tactics to perform on, and manipulate, the expectations of the audience and their own conscious/unconscious control desires.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Note: | The article is available to read at the URL above along with an accompanying video. |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Research Centres and Groups: | Centre for Media Research |
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| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2019 16:36 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2022 13:07 |
| ISSN: | 2631-6773 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/12094 |
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