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\"L.U.Marks<\/a>
L.U.Marks – Interview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nLaura U.Marks<\/strong> is a media theorist, curator and holds a position as Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n

Her recent interests lead her into the research field thematically delineated by herself as Islamic Aesthetics, Attention, and the Abstract Line, the theme she also focused upon during her lecture at the conference \u2018Sense and Sensation \u2013 On the Performativity of Perception<\/em>\u2019 in November 2004 at the FU Berlin, section \u2018Kulturen des Performativen\u2019.<\/p>\n

In the two published books The Skin of the Film<\/em> (2000) and Touch<\/em> (2002) Laura U.Marks explores her apprehension concerning the field of haptic visuality. Her research attempts to escape dominating theories of representation and interpretations of the \u2018Gaze\u2019 as derived from Lacanian psychoanalysis with one point of departure being Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari\u2019s concept of the \u2018smooth space\u2019. Their understanding of the smooth as an element of the haptic space as a distinction between optical and haptic visuality can be achieved through the difference in the attitude of accessing space\/territory. Thus the selected definition of this movement of access also defines the subject \u2013 object relation within the sensuous approach and consequently regulates it either into an embodied or disembodied perceptional experience.<\/p>\n

These immanent facts of the analysis define the political impact inherent in any notion of vision and mark the difficulty of a simple neglecting critizism of either visual concept. In this sense focusing on haptic visuality(*) can be seen as the attempt to redefine notions of the visual field. Following the less recognizable image led Laura U. Marks\u2019 research into the field of the more abstract visual pattern of embodied spectatorship. It is the missing flow between the haptic and the optical in the dominant culture of vision which stimulated this approach, but eventually might conclude on interestingly crucial and paradoxical overlappings within the underlying algorithmic patterns.<\/p>\n

Below you find a short introduction published as pdf under the title: Approach via the \u2018Smooth Space\u2019 – Laura U.Marks\u2019 Research on Intercultural New Media Practice<\/em><\/p>\n