Switching Worlds

In the context of post-digitality, artistic practices can be understood as tools for visualizing digital influences. This approach is based on the assumption that today, the use of digital tools and forms of representation is no longer the exception but the rule, and that our interactions, perspectives, and body images are now significantly shaped by this circumstance. In particular, these approaches explore the question of whether our view of the analog, non-digitally mediated environment has also changed in this newly established constitution. Post-digitality can be understood as a shift in perception. This readjustment of a digitally influenced or digitally reflective perspective is presented as a compositional strategy. Under this title, this practice is to be established as a technique that actively addresses the penetration of the analog by the digital and their interplay, thus making it tangible. The comparison of virtual and physical worlds and their artistic decoupling are presented as a compositional approach and method of artistic research that attempts not only to convey these implications theoretically, but also to make them comprehensible to the senses.

Alexander Schubert studied neuroinformatics and multimedia composition. He is a freelance composer and professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT). His work focuses on post-digital performance concepts that take place at the intersection of the digital and analog worlds. He explores the points of friction between immersive physical settings and their artificially virtual counterparts. His multimedia compositions utilize sound, video, light, and installation, addressing the subjective and societal confrontation of humans with a technical reality and future.

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The print version is in German. In addition, the title is available as open access in both German and English.

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