RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Ribeiro, ClarissaYR 2021 T1 Data incarnations: Nesting complex inherited and learned behaviours JF Technoetic Arts, VO 19 IS Themed Issue: ‘On Modes of Participation’ SP 253 OP 268 DO https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00067_1 PB Intellect, SN 1758-9533, AB 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., UL https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/tear_00067_1