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ABSTRACT
Presence and Absence –The Body and the New Media This paper aims to have a look at some of the visual artists showing a particular interest in the interaction between the presence and the absence of the human body. Since the 60’s artists like Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman used the new video technology to exploit the theme of the presence of the body. Inherently, the usage of the technological environment of video capture has automatically resulted in a series of topics related to the presence of the body, but also to its absence. David Rockeby’s installations, based on surveillance cameras, and Sophie Calle’s artistic projects are two different directions of this topic, since each of these artists is using different instruments and artistic rhetoric, but ultimately both are speaking about the memory of the body. The possibilities of data transmission, but also the new computer technology, contributed in dealing with the issue of the rematerialization of the body, as it occurs in Paul Sermon’s installations. The new technical tools also lead to a cyber world, in which the artist is like a cyber master. Artists like Stelarc and Stahl Stenslie had given their own bodies as a point of departure to their cyber projects, where the initial body, seen as being obsolete, is carried in a prosthesis stance. Through its sophisticated installations, Charlotte Davies uses the virtual space to reconfigure the whole experience of being immersed into virtual reality. The internet environment adds new facets to all these approaches which are related to the issues of presence /absence. Besides the technical medium of most of the artistic projects, the vulnerability remains a key to interpret the human body. The individual body, the social body, the anonymous body, the artist’s body etc. are all but different facets of one approach.

BIO

Education
1986-1991 Academy of Visual Arts Ion Andreescu, Cluj–Napoca, Romania
Since 2009, lecturer at Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timişoara
2008 PhD Thesis, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Arts and Design Title: Anthropomorphous Representations in the 20’th Century Visual Art

Selected Exhibitions (2009-2013)
2013 Intercontinental Mail Art Exhibition, United Nations: Nations – Water – Cultures, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
2013 SupermART, Quelle Areal, Nuremberg, Germany
2013 The Right Angle’s Seduction, Small Salon Bucharest, Home Art Gallery, Bucharest
2013 Book-Object, Theodor Pallady Galleries, Iași, Romania
2013 Art and Spirituality in Transylvania, Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
2012 Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Art Museum, Timişoara, Romania
2012 Romanian Graphic 2012, U.A.P. Galleries, Bucharest, Romania
2012 The object book-open artwork, The National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Bastion Galerry, Timișoara, Art Galleries, Focșani, Romania
2011 Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Art Museum, Timişoara, Romania
2011 AradBiennial “Meeting point-2011”, Art Museum, Arad, Romania
2011 Island of Unwanted Things, International Miniature Graphic Art Exhibition, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Arts and Design
2010 Landscape with princesses, Personal Exhibition, Pygmalion Galerry, Timișoara, Romania
2010 KleinKunstGalerie DeGustibus, Leopold Strasse Nuremberg, Germany
2010 Stars and Space in the Visual Arts, Faculty of Design and Art History, University of Szeged, Hungary
2010 Sign-Symbol, Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Seminars Participation
Form and Sense, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, 2013 Title: New technologies- Reality and Illusion related to the Human Body
Parents’ Bodies, Children’s Bodies, Seventh International Symposium of Corpus, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babeș, Timișoara, 2011 Title: Artist and Child—Relationships and Interactions in the Visual Art Interrogation of the present. Contemporary Art Exercises, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, 2011 Title: The Vulnerable Body, Mechanisms Hypostatized in Contemporary Visual Art
This Un-Real Body, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babeș, Timișoara, 2010 Title: New Technologies and The Body in Visual Arts
Postmodern reflections in contemporary art, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Arts and Design, 2010 Title: Narration and/or Freeze Frame in Contemporary Art
Workshop Instances, National University of Arts Bucharest, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, 2010 Title: Instances of Anthropomorphous Representation in the 20’th Century Visual Art

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