The thesis centres around the reflection on the digital as imminently embodied and not in any way immaterial. Based on theories of haptic gaze and embodied perception, I try to demonstrate how the body of a spectator is indispensable for comprehensive reflection on the digital image. In relation to the theorisation of the digital as material, I extend the perspective of perception as an also comprehensively bodily and embodied process. Based on examples from the work of Marcel Duchamp, I try to present how perception is in its construction polluted with other senses and essentially embodied. The concept of the optically unconscious has an important role in this thesis when it comes to the reflection on the connectedness between embodied perception and computer vision, which both appear in my own creative practice. In the conclusion, I offer a reflection on the relationship between embodied perception in the digital image and in painting.
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