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Augmented (Re)wilding of Urban Entanglements in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s AR Project The Deep Listener

Justyna Stępień

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 4 (58) Heterotopie dzikości, 2023, pp. 503-520

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.23.033.19182

The article examines Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s 2019 artistic project, The Deep Listener, within the framework of Jamie Lorimer’s relational ontology of wildlife. The artist employed Augmented Reality (AR) and audio technologies to reimagine the anthropocentric approaches towards the rewilding processes implemented in London’s Hyde Park. As the text demonstrates, the artist perceives wildlife not merely as a technologically transformed nonhuman site but as a network of more-than-human materiality and sensory experiences, shaping its spatiotemporal dimension. The Deep Listener establishes techno-environmental interconnectedness explored by users through sensory experiences. The work thus serves as an ethical practice, allowing users to unlearn desensitized reactions and develop care-driven relation with the more-than-human environment of the park.

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Encountering the Virtual in Affective Spaces. Krzysztof Wodiczko’s OUT OF HERE Veterans Project

Justyna Stępień

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 1 (35), 2018, pp. 118-129

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.18.008.8595

This paper aims to consider Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Veterans Project in the context of the central tenets of ethico-aesthetics and the concept of the virtual proposed by Gilles Deleuze, which emerge from his discussions of representation processes. The installation OUT OF HERE, which metaphorically refers to the plight of traumatised American war veterans, triggers a trans-mediated dialogue with spectators, reworking passive attitudes towards the position of the excluded. In fact, Wodiczko has been utilising American institutional spaces to prove that they alienate the marginalised to uphold the dichotomy between the centre and periphery. Hence, the aim of this paper is to show how Wodiczko’s project becomes an affective space, an assemblage of different affects and raptures, that organizes a productive encounter, an intensive event, that allows spectators not only to experience records of traumatic events but primarily to increase their capacities to act in the world and to produce new modes of their “becoming”.

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