A New Heterotopia; Technology and Art RelationsOne of the recent topics I have been addressing is the digital world's new time-space relationships. I focused on the works created by new media disciplines such as video, installation, digital sculptures, virtual reality, and augmented reality that I prepared based on the concept of "heterotopia" which Foucault uses to analyze space architecture.
Human beings today live in a technological nature that they create. Technology strengthens our relationship with millions of years ago (-Myr). Objects were living beings for humans throughout prehistoric times. Technology allows us to re-understand this magical age.
Algorithms created with the help of artificial intelligence works created by the relationship between programming and design, self-modifying electronic designs, wearable electronic surfaces, interactive sculptures that change shape, light-permeable walls with fiber-optic fibers, robots that design, "thermojet" style 3D devices that can produce three-dimensional objects. We live in a world where new artistic software with new developments starts to settle into our lives each day.
The human mind and memory can also be reshaped, written, and deleted with technological commands that are naturalized daily. This reduces the confidence of today's human beings in memory, experiences, and perception of reality. Not searching for the roots of identity in the depths of the past turn into the desire to live in the "present."
In parallel with all these developments, such as cultural politics, political art, and the resolution of sovereign codes, all strategies for reinterpreting and exposing concepts are being developed. The ability to build an identity at any moment leads to focus and self-centered perception.
Digitalized image and communication networks redefine human relationships with place. The created mental and cognitive maps, motion, speed, crossing physical boundaries, latent andmultiplex identity and validity shape the perception and representation of the postmodern world in the human mind.
Utopias which thinkers have created for many years, have been the places that maintain a general analogy relationship, either directly or in reverse, with the actual place of society. In all cultures, there have been accurate or representative spaces in civilizations. Foucault called these places the concept of "heteropia" instead of utopias because they are very different from all the places they reflect and mention.
The concept of 'heterotopia' is the reaction of many worlds of possible worlds in an ç impossible place. ' These places are more straightforward, overlapping or side by side. Foucault described the varied and familiar experiences between these spaces with the mirror metaphor.
Man can recreate it in the virtual space on the other side of the mirror. According to Foucault, this is the desire to collect all the times, all periods, all forms, and all pleasures in one place. It is the idea of creating a location outside of time that cannot be harmed by time. He explains to us the project of organizing a permanent and endless accumulation of time in a place that will not move; all this belongs to our modernity.
The experience of heterotopia in the mirror may not be effortless to build in our minds; however, when we wear glasses and move into another world with augmented reality, we realize that we are experiencing another place at that moment.We can understand Foucault better after so many years by what technology offers us.
The age we live in allows us to use different media tools to create fiction with different heterotopic experiences ranging from augmented reality goggles to video installations and light and sound arrangements.Today's techniques can produce exceptional entities, such as postponing everyday life, abrasive, reversing converts extraordinary assets, unusual body manifestations, and digital-based sculptures. Collectors like artists who develop personal ties with objects turn mythological assets, icons, relics, fragments of sacred bodies, and antiques into heterotopic. As it is possible to encode places with heterotopic maps, it can also be demonstrations by personalized and divided into pieces.
We can start by reconsidering the modern sources and familiar images of the time we live in. Starting from the Biblical library of Borges, as well as the private or institutional memories of archiving of data, squares, boulevards, museums, and cemeteries, which question the reality of the people in the mirror, can also be included in this category. At the point where the new forms, technology, science, and art of different techniques came together, other discourses marked the century we live. Digital artworks, which are created through technology, including modern knowledge, new approaches, concepts, and theories related to technology with aesthetic fiction, enable us to better understand the transition and the future by transforming them and shedding light on contemporary culture.