Abstract
Elephant fish and GPS is an attempt to reflect on data flux, and artistic practice considered as a way to implement an experience specific to a flux. Sonification is particularly well suited to this type of implementation. As such, it leads us to question the nature of this type of experience, the position of the person who is faced with the artistic object, and the position and function of the artist. It allows us to query the status of devices produced by such an artistic practice and the status of what is, traditionally, called a “work of art”. The approach is derived from neither the study of specific artistic projects that could be considered as examples from which a general model could be extrapolated, nor, conversely, that of the enunciation of models illustrated by concrete references. The intention is not to categorize practice or behavior. It is rather an approach that seeks to shift concepts and ways of thinking through progressive analogies aimed at critically questioning the notion of experience in a transition from “object” based logic to “flux” or “field”, based logic, coming from an aesthetic perspective.
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Thus, this kind of aesthetics is based on a certain type of judgment: that of taste, and the values expressed by this judgment: the Beautiful, the Ugly, the Sublime, etc. (Kant’s philosophy plays an essential role in establishing this paradigm). Because of this very framework, aesthetics tends to reduce an artwork to the status of an object, a “unique” object, often ignoring that most artistic practices, above all music, do not actually produce an "object", strictly speaking, but rather infinitely shifting and adaptable forms.
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This projection, made by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, became the standard map projection. It is still the primary model for mapping the Earth.
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Cristofol, J. Elephant fish and GPS. AI & Soc 27, 183–187 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-011-0336-4
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