The Uncanny As a Sense of Presence in MX

This paper looks at Freud’s essay on the uncanny as to understand how it is used in media art. It first analyses Freud’s concept of the uncanny, then looks at how this idea has changed in art and philosophy. From there it looks at how the uncanny has become a central part of much of modern and contemporary art. It also looks at part of media practise that doesn’t use the uncanny and why. Form there uses the work of the Centre for Research-Creation in Digital Media as a case study in how different forms of mixed reality media use or do not use the uncanny as a form of communication. Finally asking, how does a relationship with the uncanny define how we create narratives in different media.

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Kenneth Feinstein

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 254-260

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[0001]Sunway University

Centre for Research-Creation in Digital Media

No. 5, Jalan Universiti

47500 Bandar Sunway Selangor Darul Ehsan

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.43

SO-VID: 9b8dbb85-5667-4385-9742-0c3bac7264e5

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

Conference acronym: EVA 2021

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] M. Buber and W.A. Kaufmann (1970) I and Thou. New York: Scribner.

[2] G. Deleuze (2001) Dualism, Monism and Multiplicities (Desire-Pleasure-Jouissance). Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy 2:17.

[3] S. Freud, D. McLintock and H. Haughton (2003) The Uncanny. New York: Penguin Books.

[4] R. Hughes (1991) The Shock of the New. New York: Knopf.

[5] E Lévinas (1998) Entre Nous: On thinking-of-the-other. New York: Columbia University Press.

[6] B Sklarew (1999) Freud and Film: Encounters in the Weltgeist. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 47(4): 1239-1248.

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