Archaonauts
The neologism 芦 Archeonauts 禄, from which this exhibition draws its title, is a portmanteau conflating the root of 芦 archeology 禄 with a word meaning 芦 seafarers 禄 in ancient Greek. The first component articulates a double meaning, that of antiquity (archaios) but also the act of ruling and dominating (archein), as Sigfried Zielinski has pointed out in his essay Deep Time of the Media, while the affix 芦 -nautes 禄 ideally refers to a repertoire of figures connected with the experience of travel, be it a journey across the Universe (Astronauts), through the seas that lie between the East and the West (Argonauts) or in the Cyberspace (Internauts).
The word 芦 Archeonaut 禄 identifies an archetype, that of a being in a state of itinerancy, a traveler through time and space, a wayfarer moving back and forth between West and East and deploying him- or herself in the networks of the Internet; it suggests a meeting of faraway worlds and unpredictable junctions between 芦 the pasts and the futures, the future pasts and the past futures 禄 (Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archeology, 2012). Thus, this neologism pinpoints an anthropological universal involved in a quest for meaning through an archeological gaze.
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The neologism 芦 Archeonauts 禄, from which this exhibition draws its title, is a portmanteau conflating the root of 芦 archeology 禄 with a word meaning 芦 seafarers 禄 in ancient Greek. The first component articulates a double meaning, that of antiquity (archaios) but also the act of ruling and dominating (archein), as Sigfried Zielinski has pointed out in his essay Deep Time of the Media, while the affix 芦 -nautes 禄 ideally refers to a repertoire of figures connected with the experience of travel, be it a journey across the Universe (Astronauts), through the seas that lie between the East and the West (Argonauts) or in the Cyberspace (Internauts).
The word 芦 Archeonaut 禄 identifies an archetype, that of a being in a state of itinerancy, a traveler through time and space, a wayfarer moving back and forth between West and East and deploying him- or herself in the networks of the Internet; it suggests a meeting of faraway worlds and unpredictable junctions between 芦 the pasts and the futures, the future pasts and the past futures 禄 (Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archeology, 2012). Thus, this neologism pinpoints an anthropological universal involved in a quest for meaning through an archeological gaze.
