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Worldmaking as Techné: Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture
outlines a practice that challenges the World and how it could be
through a kind of future-making, and/or other world making, by creating
alternate realties as artworks that are simultaneously ontological
propositions. In simplified terms the concept of techné is concerned
with the art and craft of making. In particular a kind of practice that
embodies the enactment of theoretical approach that helps determine the
significance of the work, how it was made, and why. By positioning
worldmaking as a kind of techné, we seek to create a discourse of art
making as an enframing of the world that results in the expression of
ontological propositions through the creation of art-worlds.
The
volume focuses on the involvement of the techné of worldmaking in
participatory art practice. Such practice can be found in all areas of
art, however, under scrutiny for this particular book are: interactive,
generative, and prosthetic art, architecture, and music practices that
depend for their vitality and development on the participation of their
observers.
The book is organized into three sections: po(i)etic,
machinic, and cybernetic, which explore the aesthetics, systems,
methods, and ontological underpinnings of a worldmaking based practice.
Each section contains historical texts alongside new texts. The texts
were carefully chosen to highlight the integration of theory and
practice in their approach. While the foundation of this worldmaking is
deeply philosophical and rigorous in its approach, there is a need to
connect this work to the World of our everyday experience. As we
contemplate issues of why we might want to make a world, we are
confronted with the responsibilities of making the world as well.
Contributors
Sofian
Audry, Philip Beesley, Laura Beloff, Peter Blasser, James Coupe,
Alberto de Campo, Heinz von Foerster, Felix Guattari, Mark-David Hosale,
Kathrine Elizabeth L. Johansson, Sang Lee, Sana Murrani, Dan Overholt,
Andrew Pickering, Esben Bala Skouboe, Chris Salter, Nicolas Schöffer,
Edward Shanken, Graham Wakefield
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