Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

Since the turn of the millennium a surge in digital technology has led to a rise in the adoption of creative practice utilising interactive media across a multitude of fields. Now, almost 20 years on, aside quickening technological advancement and swelling digital development, I sense a developing “counteract”. As a global inhabitant, living and working within an increasingly digital landscape, I begin to wonder ‘why this perception?’… and so, I approach my line of enquiry; positioned from a curiosity-driven perspective, via a hermeneutical framework to ask: what if, running counter to our exponentially expanding “digital body,” there lay an equally significant “inner body,” or affective dimension? How do they relate to one another? If we are to consider their relationship as “intercorporeal” (Merleau Ponty) then perhaps we are looking towards a “readjustment” or “re-balancing” of bodily relations? “Connected Bodies? In Search of the Affective Dimension” is about an exploration of “this neglected relationship” via the affective side of the art experience.