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This paper looks at how the uncanny has become a fundamental element in the creation of media art. How the juxtaposition of desperate elements has become central to how we understand the creation of meaning in contemporary culture. It traces how the idea of the uncanny has developed in Western culture and how it has our changing idea of Otherness has influenced and been influenced by the uncanny in the form of montage. Lastly it looks at examples of how contemporary media works as ’pataphysical objects embody the uncanny.
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Feinstein, K. (2021). An Unheimlich Media: Bringing the Uncanny into the World. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Theory, Methods and Tools. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78462-1_16
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