Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 1978), aka
up'' or Carola Unterberger, is an Austrian
media artist and
philosopher of art. In addition to
video installation
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s and
experimental film
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s, her work contains
Objet d'art
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, paintings and
digital art
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. She specializes in the
postmodern
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discourse
Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. F ...
,
deconstruction
In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understand the relationship between text and meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from ...
, and questions on media and the arts.
In 2009 she published a book, "Der Filmische Hypertext: Links im Film - Film als Link".
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
Artists from Salzburg
21st-century Austrian women artists
Austrian contemporary artists
Postmodern artists
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