| Bodiless Body
What kind of relation is formed between the field of digital art
and gender issues, presenting the human body and different interventions
inquiring into sexuality? What is the relation between the human
figure, and all the things it, doubtlessly, possesses - racial,
sexual and other dispositions, on one side, and new technologies
on the other? How do the Christian religion and its explicit denial
of the body, sensuality and sexuality, fit into the concept?
The human body, as a timeless form and an incessant source of inspiration,
plays a fully different role in the contemporary digital world.
It opens a whole new field of visual arts, which has attained a
high level of interaction between the medium and the body as the
carrier of the information.
Gender issues, sexuality and asexuality are just some of the fields
artists have in mind when creating their works. Using or not using
certain images connected to these problems also plays an important
part in creating the world that surround us. Shapes that we see
on TV, billboards, and posters, web pages and in the papers every
day, use ambivalent positions of the body as a visual phenomenon.
Questions of a copy and original, religion and atheism, homo and
heterosexuality... are becoming superfluous.
Sasa Janjic
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