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In this chapter, the complex relationship between the analog and the digital is explored. I draw on Alexander Galloway’s interesting analysis of this relationship when discussing the non-philosophy of François Laurelle. I then juxtapose Massumi’s Deleuzian analysis of the ‘superiority’ of the analog so as to explore two digital art installations: Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway’s Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium, a completely digitalized installation, and Stimuline (2003) as discussed by Eleni Ikoniadou where the sonic becomes especially crucial to grasping the rhythmic quality of inaudible sounds; sound artworks are considered as abstract ‘rhythm machines.’ The essay concludes to think with quantum levels that are beyond human perception and address the affect/percept that Deleuze and Guattari have addressed by pointing to the asignifying force of energy of the Outside and the question of a New Earth. Once more, there is a pedagogical questioning running throughout this chapter when it comes to the artistic process in new media.
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jagodzinski, j. (2019). Explorations of the Analog-Digital: In Relation to the Event of the Artistic Process . In: Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12367-3_10
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