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Data incarnations: Nesting complex inherited and learned behaviours
- Source: Technoetic Arts, Volume 19, Issue Themed Issue: ‘On Modes of Participation’, Nov 2021, p. 253 - 268
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- 21 Dec 2021
- 04 May 2022
- 01 Nov 2021
Abstract
What happens when humans and birds engage each other through a collaboration-as-fantasy mediated by computers? Could such an exercise be modelled in a way that helps us to transcend the techno-ocularcentric fetishes for precision and certainty which demarcate our time? From Edgar Wind’s notion of 'incarnation' – as the place where empirical experience and metaphysical foundation meet in the single cognitive and experiential act – this article bridges the analogue with the digital, navigating nature’s strategies to embody inherited and learned complex behaviours in the design of nests, in what I call data-nests.
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