Nowe media, poetyka, tożsamość i metafizyka. Wspomnienie badawcze

Abstract

The article is an attempt of defining new media and analyzing video installations by Joan Jonas, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Emmanuelle Antille, Jana Sterbak, Su-Mei Tse, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bill Viola and Robert Cahen in the context of the possibility of their verbal interpretation. As a conclusion, the article poses a thesis that video installations are art that is still determined by the primacy of aesthetic function. It is localized, among others, in the manner of poetic organization of the communicate which is legible in its interpretation and is a synthesis of the image and word. Iconic-verbal poetry facilitates momentous, philosophical and metaphysical topics.