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Pinky and the Brain |
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If human cognition is not merely influenced by culture
and society, but is largely an entity of culture and a social process
itself, then we can analyze the process of translation as a purely human condition,
quite different from the technology which it often aims to translate in data
art.
This project is about deception.. betrayal.. lies.. and the truth.As we drove off to the desert, everyone had grand ideas about themselves as performance artists and sharing their work with the world. To be honest with you, I did as well, but being the skeptic that I am, I couldn't help but think no one besides this group would believe in the work we did on Racetrack Playa. After all, what if we never did it; what if all we did was this website. This is where the deception began to take form. Edwin Hutchins told us in Cognition in the Wild that we depend on one another to form our perception of the truth and perform the basic task of thinking as a social process.When I took this primitive robot, Pinky, to the desert I gave the audience a cognitive map of what was occurring. I tricked them into thinking that this robot was reacting to their movements, so they better dance! The cognitive reaction proved Hutchins' theory when later, the surveyed audience produced an "interaction phenomenon." From this performance, the most interesting result was
relating the information into an investigation of how to relate this
to my art and theory practices. Lev Manovich's ideas in "The Anti-sublime
Ideal in Data Art" has been a battle for me in both practice and theory,
and with this performance I was able to produce more conclusions about
new media art and the practices of its artists. Read
the full theory text
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