BINATIONAL ARTISTIC PhD-PROGRAM

Transpoetics of Distance explores the intersections of affect, media, and environment through the transmediation of light. Operating within a contemporary post-digital condition where ubiquitous technologies flatten spacetime into immediate presence, the research argues that what is at stake is a crisis in the perception of distance: an aesthetic and epistemic shift marked by the erosion of situated perspectives through which the world is experienced and understood across media.

To address the challenges this techno-mediated condition poses, the research proposes Transpoetics of Distance: an artistic transmedia methodology that works from within media to reappropriate the light-based technologies implicated in this condition. By shifting the operational paradigm from the tele- (operating at a distance) to the trans- (operating across it), the inquiry reclaims distance as a productive site of situated insight, performing it as a multiscalar magnitude across and beyond media. Through the interplay between media practice and autoethnographic writing, the project unfolds across three distinct transmedia ecologies, each articulating a different scale and operation of distance: the intimate, through the transduction of feeling; the interstitial, through the translation of trace; and the infrastructural, through the transposition of image.

Situated at the intersection of media art, media theory, philosophy, and artistic research, the research establishes a framework in which transmedia practice functions simultaneously as an artistic and a research practice. Ultimately, it demonstrates how distance is not merely a physical gap in spacetime overcome by contemporary media, but a fundamental aesthetic and epistemic magnitude that, when made perceptible through practice, enables new forms of relation and agency.