%0 Journal Article %A Ribeiro, Clarissa %T Data incarnations: Nesting complex inherited and learned behaviours %D 2021 %J Technoetic Arts, %V 19 %N Themed Issue: ‘On Modes of Participation’ %P 253-268 %@ 1758-9533 %R https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00067_1 %K metaphysics %K inherited and learned complex behaviours %K data-sculptures %K algorithmic design %K morphogenesis %K data visualization %K digital fabrication %I Intellect, %X 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. %U https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/tear_00067_1