This complex time, lived in isolation between uncertainties and meditations, is also the time of experimentation, searching answers and ideas. The web offers the opportunity to explore numerous information resources and sources of image production, sharing reflections, investiga-tions and projects in which man, space and living are the object of the representations. These are domains where, in real time and with a continuous flow, meaningful images, graphic elaborations concerning cities, architecture, environment and landscape, coming from every corner of the world, converge. The images project on the display not simply representations of the living plac-es, but real visual suggestions, each with different communication and technical methods. They are almost never fluid−looking images, but highly artificial, full of artistic references, allusions, quotations, contaminations, emphasis. The data which crosses those images come from different fields, from biology to economy, from design to cinema, from mathematics to philosophy, to visual culture. During the pandemic, the impulse to resolve the urgent issues of distancing and to rethink the models of human−environment interaction has furthered the use of these sharing platforms, stimulating discussions and debates. The continuous exposure to data, directing in turn the exploration of new regions and the network domains, has made it possible to transform the (visual) experience into the possibility of observing ourselves and the environment, specta-tors and protagonists of new rituals. The ‘homescape’ is the interesting proposal emerging from the web, which identifies a new ‘total landscape’ in the home environment, self−sufficient, in-tegrated and highly efficient. It appears transformed into an ambiguous space shown through a counter−image, connected to the traditional one in such a way as to suspend, neutralize, reverse the set of relationships which are reflected in it.

Questo tempo complesso vissuto in isolamento tra incertezze e meditazioni è anche il tempo della sperimentazione, alla ricerca di risposte e di idee. Il web offre la possibilità di esplorare numerose risorse di informazioni e fonti di produzione di immagini che condividono riflessioni, indagini e progetti in cui l’uomo, lo spazio e l’abitare sono l’oggetto delle raffigurazioni. Sono domini dove confluiscono, in tempo reale e con un flusso continuo, immagini significative, elaborazioni grafiche riguardanti città, architettura, ambiente e paesaggio, provenienti da ogni angolo del mondo. Le immagini proiettano sul display non semplicemente rappresentazioni dei luoghi dell’abitare, ma vere e proprie suggestioni visive, ognuna con diverse modalità comunicative e tecniche. Non sono quasi mai immagini dall’aspetto fluido ma fortemente artificiali, cariche di riferimenti artistici, allusioni, citazioni, contaminazioni, enfatizzazioni. I dati che le attraversano provengono da differenti ambiti, dalla biologia all’economia, dal design al cinema, dalla matematica alla filosofia, alla cultura visuale. Durante la pandemia l’impulso a risolvere le urgenti questioni di distanziamento e ripensare ai modelli di interazione uomo–ambiente ha favorito l’uso di queste piattaforme di condivisione, stimolando confronti e dibattiti. La continua esposizione ai dati, che a loro volta indirizzano l’esplorazione di nuove regioni e domini della rete, ha permesso di trasformare l’esperienza (visiva) nella possibilità di osservare noi stessi e l’ambiente, spettatori e protagonisti di nuovi rituali. L’homescape è l’interessante proposta che emerge dal web che individua nell’ambiente domestico un nuovo “paesaggio totale”, autosufficiente, integrato e altamente efficiente. Esso appare trasformato in uno spazio ambiguo mostrato attraverso una controimmagine, connessa a quella tradizionale in modo tale da sospendere, neutralizzare, invertire l’insieme dei rapporti che in esso si riflettono.

Controimmagini = Counter−images / Castagnolo, Valentina; Maiorano, Anna Christiana. - In: XY. - ISSN 2499-8338. - STAMPA. - 9-10:(2020), pp. 62-77. [10.15168/xy.v5i09-10.174]

Controimmagini = Counter−images

Valentina Castagnolo;Anna Christiana Maiorano
2020-01-01

Abstract

This complex time, lived in isolation between uncertainties and meditations, is also the time of experimentation, searching answers and ideas. The web offers the opportunity to explore numerous information resources and sources of image production, sharing reflections, investiga-tions and projects in which man, space and living are the object of the representations. These are domains where, in real time and with a continuous flow, meaningful images, graphic elaborations concerning cities, architecture, environment and landscape, coming from every corner of the world, converge. The images project on the display not simply representations of the living plac-es, but real visual suggestions, each with different communication and technical methods. They are almost never fluid−looking images, but highly artificial, full of artistic references, allusions, quotations, contaminations, emphasis. The data which crosses those images come from different fields, from biology to economy, from design to cinema, from mathematics to philosophy, to visual culture. During the pandemic, the impulse to resolve the urgent issues of distancing and to rethink the models of human−environment interaction has furthered the use of these sharing platforms, stimulating discussions and debates. The continuous exposure to data, directing in turn the exploration of new regions and the network domains, has made it possible to transform the (visual) experience into the possibility of observing ourselves and the environment, specta-tors and protagonists of new rituals. The ‘homescape’ is the interesting proposal emerging from the web, which identifies a new ‘total landscape’ in the home environment, self−sufficient, in-tegrated and highly efficient. It appears transformed into an ambiguous space shown through a counter−image, connected to the traditional one in such a way as to suspend, neutralize, reverse the set of relationships which are reflected in it.
2020
XY
Controimmagini = Counter−images / Castagnolo, Valentina; Maiorano, Anna Christiana. - In: XY. - ISSN 2499-8338. - STAMPA. - 9-10:(2020), pp. 62-77. [10.15168/xy.v5i09-10.174]
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