Nonhuman Images: Environment and Emotion in two films by Viera Čákanyová
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F22%3A39920919" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/22:39920919 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2023.2287325" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2023.2287325</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2023.2287325" target="_blank" >10.1080/01973762.2023.2287325</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Nonhuman Images: Environment and Emotion in two films by Viera Čákanyová
Original language description
Two films by Viera Čákanyová portray the momentous yet fragile landscapes of Antarctica. Frem (Slovakia 2019) depicts vast and arid vistas from the perspective of a drone whose movements are based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. White on White (Slovakia 2020) was shot during the same expedition; this time the camera is held by Čákanyová. We see two quite different types of cinematography: one is a neutral, emotionally detached, machine-like view; the other is embodied, vulnerable and affective. A seal bleeding on an ice floe, a melting iceberg crumbling into the sea, a human seeking shelter in the biting cold – the scenes provide the viewer with very different potentialities for emotional responses depending on whether the camera is held by a human hand and guided by a human eye, or if the gaze is that of a drone guided by computational algorithms.In this paper, I will examine the following questions: what role does imagining the nonhuman, the superhuman or the beyond human play in our visual culture? Does the gaze of the machine provide us with something useful? Or does it deprive us of something that is needed for us to understand our position in the world? Čákanyová’s films are my main discussion partners in investigating these topics. My conclusions are inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s redefinition of our relationship with nature. He writes about the nonhuman, not as a result of transcending human experience but rather as an acknowledgement of our kinship with and immersion in nature.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Visual Resources
ISSN
0197-3762
e-ISSN
1477-2809
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
"30–50"
UT code for WoS article
001160224300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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