Description
In many ways Tokyo is a city of screens. Literal as well as metaphorical screens are placed and moved throughout the city in the form of windows, folding screens (byōbu), sliding screen doors (fusuma and shōji), and the emotional screens that people carry to shield themselves and their inner thoughts from the society around them (tatemae). But there are also big billboards, LED Screens, smaller screens in trains, subways and department stores and a nearly uncountable number of tiny screens in the hands and pockets of people living in the city. These screens have uncontestedly become an inherent part of everyday life for many, connecting them not only to emails, websites, news and social media, but also to others, they like to share their everyday perceptions with.The crux however is, that while the everyday is shaped by multisensory perception, the technical apparatus only allows the sharing of visual and sonic information. Therefore, this paper focuses on the practices of digitally shared smells and tastes. Do people neglect these senses? Do they narrate their perceptions? Or do they invent new forms of practices and communication patterns and techniques of sharing? I apply ideas and concepts of Vilém Flusser’s Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983) and of Michael Fisch’s Anthropology of the Machine (2018) in connection with Piia Varis’s approach towards a “digital ethnography” (2014) to explore anthropological possibilities to study these questions, striving for a connection of everyday life and digital media approached through multisensory perception.
| Period | 16 Apr 2019 |
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| Event title | JAWS Workshop 2019 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Aarhus, DenmarkShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |