A Dialogic Imagination

This weeks reading lead me to researching other texts such as 'Negociating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art' by Eduardo Kac. In reference to Kac's reading he speaks about the new age of dialogue and how it relates to art. He refers to the largest part of language in today'sw society being digital technology, with the largest manifestation being the web which enables interaction in many diverse ways. Much about social interaction can be learnt from electronic art. Dialogical philosophy was establishedby Buberand developed by Mikhail Nakhtin. For Bakhtin, "human conciousness is the semiotic intercource of one subject with another, i.e., conciousness is at once inside and outside the subject." He believes language to be the material means of production via a process of dialouge. His approach is through artworks that do not have visuals, but visuals through artworks that do not have visuals, but visuals through dialouge. Which makes us question what art is? Bakhtins ideas state that typical art such as wall hangings and objects miss the opportunity to speak to the first type of dialogical philosophy in art which changes our ideas of art. Dialogical imaginations could potentially take art beyond collaboration and participation. Within visual arts the idea of collabortaion has been around for at least a century.