![]() ![]() This etymological observation plays a crucial role: we intend to re-connect art, technology and craft in a contemporary setting. In Beyond Art and Technology: The Anthropology of Skill, Tim Ingold claims that the Latin ars, from which our ‘art’ derives, and the Greek tekhne, the root of our ‘technology’, meant much the same thing, namely skill, of the kind associated with craftmanship. Within this cluster technology refers to the tools and techniques, both digital and non-digital to create, produce and present knowledge and experiences. As such, a process-based approach encourages experimentation, risk taking, and exploring innovative bold ideas. Furthermore, re-installments of the transformative power of storytelling and imagination in technological and scientific evolution all inform this cluster. We hack, redefine meanings of usefulness and repurpose emerging technologies. This critical stance aims to dismantle tech bias with its sometimes-fixed value and belief system.Ĭritical approaches in this cluster can take on many different guises. Simultaneously, research in this cluster questions conventional thinking on and ethics of innovation and the idea of progress linked to technology. ![]() We question what skilled practice can mean in different circumstances, for instance in Western versus non-Western traditions. Through the lens of critical storytelling, we aim for new forms of technological knowledge and new modes of expression therein. These all influence our environment and participate in shaping social and cultural practices. ![]() Sentience or tangibility is no prerequisite to be attributed agency: objects, machines, tools or even natural phenomena also qualify. Performing with these skills of technology involves devising toolsets and critical discourses to broaden or hack our experiences. ![]() Artistic research in this cluster is carried out by musicians, visual artists, media artists, performers, live coders, media critics and designers and focuses on different modalities of technology – understood here as a set of skills, both digital and non-digital – such as skilled practice and its relationship with both tangible (objects) and non-tangible (processes) output. ![]()
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