Tactile-sonic enactments – on the agency of air in “Untitled No2, 2014”

How to think of, and to orchestrate material events for mixed sensory experience, the entanglements of tactile, aural and visual? I will approach this question as an artist-researcher, in conversation with science studies, Karen Barad’s philosophy and my installation “Untitled (2014)”. Here the focus is on the entanglements of the tactile and the aural, and on conceiving of an interactive installation as a materializing event, a multiplicity of agential cuts (Barad, 2007). Attention is drawn to the ways in which interactions of different human and nonhuman elements produce movement across trajectories of material transformations. Of particular interest are those movements, which involve the agency of air.

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Heidi Tikka

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Publication date: August 2019

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[0001]Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Department of Media, Otaniemi 20150 Finland

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.19

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

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Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] K. Barad 2003 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Signs: Journal on Women in Culture and Society 28 3 Spring 2013 801 831

[2] K. Barad 2007 Meeting the Universe Halfway Durham & London Duke University Press

[3] D. Haraway (199) Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature London Free Association Books

[4] D. Haraway (199) Modest_Witness@Second-Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™ London & New York Routledge

[5] T. Ingold 2007 Agains Soundscape A. Carlyle Autumn Leaves Paris Double Entendre 10 13

[6] B. Latour 1999 On Recalling ANT John LawJohn Hassard Actor Network Theory and After Oxford Blackwell

[7] B. Latour 2001 We Have Never Been Modern Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press

[8] B. Latour 2000 Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory Oxford & New York Oxford University Press

[9] J. Law 1992 Notes on the Theory of the Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy and Heterogeneity Systems Practice 5 1992 379 93

[10] J. LawJohn Hassard 1999 Actor Network Theory and After Oxford Blackwell

[11] J. LawA. Mol 2002 Complexities: Social Studies of Knowedge Practices Durham & London Duke University Press

[12] John Law 2004 After Method: Mess in Social Science Research Routledge London & New York

[13] A. Pickering 1995 The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science Chicago & London The University of Chicago Press

[14] L. Suchman 2007 Human-Machine Reconfigurations – Plans and Situated Actions 2 New York Cambridge University Press

[15] H. Tikka 2018 Enacting Agential Cuts - Notes on the “Untitled 1-3 2014 RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research 9 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/371984/386688 10 September 2019

[16] M. Wagenfeld 2013 Aesthetics of Air. Doctor of Philosophy thesis. School of Architecture and Design, College of Design and Social Context Melbourne RMIT University https://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/eserv/rmit:160741/Wagenfeld.pdf 30 November 2019

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