Probing Mundania: Using Art and Cultural Analysis to Explore Emerging Technologies

Robert Willim

Probing Mundania: Using Art and Cultural Analysis to Explore Emerging Technologies

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Abstract

This essay will discuss my work in the interstices between art and cultural analysis. I will expound on how I’ve used a certain concept as part of artistic practice and cultural analytic research. The concept, which I’ve chosen to call Mundania, is used to grapple with the role of emerging technologies in everyday life. The concept is used to discharge imaginations about everyday life characterised by a looming uncertainty and the comingling with ungraspable complex technologies that gradually become ordinary. I will show and discuss how the work with the Mundania-concept is based on processes of probing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-37
Number of pages	16
Journal	Cultural Analysis
Volume	21
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Arts
Cultural Studies

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art
emerging technologies
digital
media
probing

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Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation
Willim, R. (PI)
Swedish Research Council
2018/01/01 → 2023/12/31
Project: Research

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Connected Homes and Distant Infrastructures - An Ethnological Study of Networked Domestic Technology and Imaginaries of Pervasive Digitalisation

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