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| - | A recently updated short description of my research goes as follows: | + | A recently |
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| + | This research project started as an attempt to deal with a question that Socrates gets asked in his dialogue with Meno: how can we learn something we don't already know ? I will be exploring what I think is one answer, that new things can be learned in interaction with devices outside of us. It is an answer that interests me because what I have been calling a ' | ||
| + | my media-art practice for many years. But despite these roots, the aim of this project is not primarily to think about art; the aim is to clarify the concept of a ' | ||
| + | a view of technology that is also relevant outside of the arts. By focusing on the agency of | ||
| + | technological artefacts in speculation and creation, I hope to contribute to a reflection on technology | ||
| + | as something else than a tool to subjugate our planet and ourselves.\\ | ||
| + | Practical work has focused on the room full of historic and recent analog computers that has been my studio for the past few years. I have been making artistic works nourished by a form of media-archeology that serves two purposes that are almost opposed: it seeks to illuminate aspects | ||
| + | of current practices by going back to their origins, and it looks at the past as a rich and relatively | ||
| + | accessible source of difference.\\ | ||
| + | In my reading and writing I am trying to articulate the sources of what can be perceived as an agency of machines and look at how a dialogue with machines can be a form of collaboration in which new representations appear. For this I am primarily leaning on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and Isabelle Stengers, with frequent appearances by Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler and Andrew Pickering. An important element in these reflections is the notion of abstraction as articulated by Whitehead: abstractions are not objects but decisions to focus on certain aspects of a situation and relegate other aspects to the background. This is a view on abstractions as performative, | ||
| - | Artists who work with technology often develop their own tools as part of the articulation of their aesthetic language. My research starts from the comparison of this process with the mutual transformations of devices, procedures, concepts and scientists that take place in a scientific lab. During the research period, I want to reflect on the mutual construction of tools and artist, as a way to take a conceptual and practical step in my work and position it more explicitly relative to recent developments in the exact sciences.\\ | ||
| - | Central to formulating such a position will be a reflection on the dialogue between humans and technology, focusing on the point where concepts and materials meet. As a starting point, I am reading about mathematics, | ||
| - | Practical work starts from the technologies of analog computing and electronic modeling. The short-term goal of this is to build an analog HD video synthesizer and make a series of works that give a voice to the physicality of the systems that produced them. The longer-term goal is to use the culture of analog computing and electronic modeling as a vantage point from which to explore the artistic potential of chemistry, nanotechnology and other technologies that deal with matter on the molecular scale.\\ | ||
| - | By engaging in a dialogue with devices and the cultures they are part of, I want to open a space of alternative technical possibilities. These are musical, poetic as well as utopian, and form a critique of a purely functional approach to technology.\\ | ||
| ===== presentations and publications ===== | ===== presentations and publications ===== | ||
| - | * presentation at Alchemy Filmmaker [[http:// | + | * presentation at Alchemy Filmmaker [[http:// |
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| + | * exhibition of installation #71.1 during the Sonic Acts festival at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (February 2019). | ||
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| + | * exhibition of (partially reworked) installation #71.1 at iMal in Brussels. (November 2019) | ||
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