The Techno-Ecological Practice as the Politics of Ontological Coalitions

The paper focuses on the art projects aimed at visualizing (grasping) the physical or biological phenomena through interfaces and / or installations designed specifically for such purpose. Such works often mirror the post-digital condition of our time where the digital technologies constitute the common background for everyday activities, no longer having the allure of “new” and “exciting” (Berry, Dieter et al., 2015). In this process, both the networked technologies of wireless communication and the act of crossing the boundaries between the digital and the physical play the crucial role as the post-digital networked imagery increasingly becomes directly connected to the physical environment. I would like to ponder on the questions of processuality and relationality involved in such instances where the complexity of the hybrid works of art clearly transgresses the paradigm of representationalism (Thrift, 2008;; Anderson and Harrison, 2010;; Kember and Zylinska, 2012). The particular attention is given to the fact that such artworks bond different ontological realms (discursive, physical, digital) and different agents (human and non-human, carbon-based and software-based) forging “ontological coalitions” (Malafouris, 2013). Throughout the article the mutlirealist and relational perspective is offered, inspired by the propositions of Gilbert Simondon and Etienne Souriau.

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Anna Nacher

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Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

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[1 ] Institute of Audiovisual Arts

Faculty of Management and Social Communication

Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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Krakow

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.17

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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J Gabrys 2016 Program Earth. Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Minneapolis and London University of Minnesota Press
S Hekman 2008 Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism S AlaimoS Hekman Material Feminisms Bloomington & Indianapolis Indiana University Press 86 118
Y Hui 2016 On the Existence of Digital Objects Minneapolis and London University of Minnesota Press
S KemberJ Żylińska 2012 Life After New Media. Mediation as a Vital Process Cambridge MA – London MIT Press
E Kluitenberg 2012 Techno-Ecologies Inhabiting the Deep-Technological Spheres of Everyday Life R SmiteR SmitsE Kluitenberg Techno-Ecologies, Acoustic Space 11 RIXC Center for New Media Culture and Liepaja University, Riga
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G Simondon 1989 L’individuation psychique et collective Paris Editions Aubier
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E Souriau 2015 The Different Modes of the Existence E BeranekT Howles Minneapolis Univocal
N Thrift 2008 Non-representational Theory. Space, Politics, Affect London – New York Routledge
M Whitelaw 2013 Transmediality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts in: U. Ekman Throughout. Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing Cambridge and London MIT Press 223 237
S Zielinski S Wagnermeier 2005 Variantology - On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies Cologne Verlag der Buchhandlung König

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[1] B AndersonP Harrison 2010 Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography Farnham – Burlington Ashgate

[2] M. D BerryM Dieter 2015 Postdigital Aesthetics. Art, Computation and Design New York Palgrave Macmillan

[3] J Bridle 2011 New Aesthetic http://www.riglondon.com/blog/2011/05/06/the-new-aesthetic/ September 12 2014

[4] F Cramer 2018 Post-Digital Writing J Tabbi The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature London - Oxford Bloomsbury Academic 361 371

[5] F Fruteau de Laclos 2011/12 Les voies de l’instauration: Souriau chez les contemporaines Critique 775 931 948

[6] M Fuller 2013 Foreword U Ekman Throughout. Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing Cambridge MA MIT

[7] J Gabrys 2016 Program Earth. Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Minneapolis and London University of Minnesota Press

[8] S Hekman 2008 Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism S AlaimoS Hekman Material Feminisms Bloomington & Indianapolis Indiana University Press 86 118

[9] Y Hui 2016 On the Existence of Digital Objects Minneapolis and London University of Minnesota Press

[10] S KemberJ Żylińska 2012 Life After New Media. Mediation as a Vital Process Cambridge MA – London MIT Press

[11] E Kluitenberg 2012 Techno-Ecologies Inhabiting the Deep-Technological Spheres of Everyday Life R SmiteR SmitsE Kluitenberg Techno-Ecologies, Acoustic Space 11 RIXC Center for New Media Culture and Liepaja University, Riga

[12] B Latour 2011 Reflections on Les diffèrent modes d'existence S Muecke L.R BryantL SrnicekG Harman The Speculative Turn. Continental Materialism and Realism Melbourne re:press 304 334

[13] L Malafouris 2004 The cognitive basis of material engagement: Where brain, body and culture conflate E DeMarraisC GosdenC Renfrew Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World

[14] McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, UK 53 62

[15] L Malafouris 2013 How Things Shape the Mind. A Theory of Material Engagement Cambridge MA MIT Press

[16] R MarieI Hoelzl 2015 Softimage. Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image Bristol – Chicago Intellect

[17] A Nacher 2016 Internet of things and automation of imaging: beyond representationalism communications+1 5 (Machine Communication) 1 20 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol5/iss1/6/ June 10 2018

[18] A Nacher 2017 The creative process as a „dance of agency” – Shelley Jackson’s „Snow”: performing literary text with elements D Cortes-Maduro Digital Media and Textuality. From Creation to Archiving Bielefeld Transcript Verlag 169 187

[19] C Noske 2015 Towards the Existential Pluralism. Reading Through the Philosophy of Etienne Souriau Cultural Studies Review 21 1 34 57 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/a rticle/view/3951/4750 June 11 2018

[20] C RenfrewL Malafouris Introduction C RenfrewL Malafouris The Cognitive Life of Things. Recasting the Boundaries of the Mind, McDonald Institute Monographs, UK 1 13

[21] G Simondon 1989 L’individuation psychique et collective Paris Editions Aubier

[22] R SmiteR Smits 2011 Emerging Techno- Ecological Art Practices: Towards Renewable Futures C ApprichJ. B SlaterA Iles et al Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology Lueneburg Post-Media Lab & Mute Books 142 159

[23] E Souriau 2015 The Different Modes of the Existence E BeranekT Howles Minneapolis Univocal

[24] N Thrift 2008 Non-representational Theory. Space, Politics, Affect London – New York Routledge

[25] M Whitelaw 2013 Transmediality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts in: U. Ekman Throughout. Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing Cambridge and London MIT Press 223 237

[26] S Zielinski S Wagnermeier 2005 Variantology - On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies Cologne Verlag der Buchhandlung König

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