TY - CHAP

T1 - Shifting Immediations

T2 - 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art - ISEA2020

AU - Brunner, Christoph

AU - Fritsch, Jonas

N1 - Conference code: 26

PY - 2020/11

Y1 - 2020/11

N2 - This paper explores the concept of fields of experienceas a way to engage with the conditions of emergence of what we might call sentience. As a process of fielding, sensation and processes of sense-making are of an emergent and entangled quality in the overall ecology of experience. We specifically wish to emphasize the dynamics of the closely interrelated conditions for sensing and sense-making –what we concep-tualize as ‘shiftingimmedations’ -and its affective politics. Rather than transgression, ‘shifting’ foregrounds the some-times almost imperceptible reorientations of fields of experi-ence that are lived immediately as tendencies and vectors for change (feeling the non-sensuous). In particular, we wish to zoom in on specific practices and technologies that might modulate and reorient such experiential fields. We do so by analyzing two cases that emphasize the emergent relations be-tween digital and interactive technologies and their fielding potential; BERMUDAis an interactive installation that at-tempts to relay affective intensity into tendencies for collec-tive action, whereas the interventions of etcetera emphasize time-sensitive modulations of experience. Exploring these cases,we ask how experiential fields and shifting immedia-tions might allow us to think and act towards new forms of engaging in a politics of sentience beyond the human subject

AB - This paper explores the concept of fields of experienceas a way to engage with the conditions of emergence of what we might call sentience. As a process of fielding, sensation and processes of sense-making are of an emergent and entangled quality in the overall ecology of experience. We specifically wish to emphasize the dynamics of the closely interrelated conditions for sensing and sense-making –what we concep-tualize as ‘shiftingimmedations’ -and its affective politics. Rather than transgression, ‘shifting’ foregrounds the some-times almost imperceptible reorientations of fields of experi-ence that are lived immediately as tendencies and vectors for change (feeling the non-sensuous). In particular, we wish to zoom in on specific practices and technologies that might modulate and reorient such experiential fields. We do so by analyzing two cases that emphasize the emergent relations be-tween digital and interactive technologies and their fielding potential; BERMUDAis an interactive installation that at-tempts to relay affective intensity into tendencies for collec-tive action, whereas the interventions of etcetera emphasize time-sensitive modulations of experience. Exploring these cases,we ask how experiential fields and shifting immedia-tions might allow us to think and act towards new forms of engaging in a politics of sentience beyond the human subject

KW - Cultural studies

KW - interaction design

KW - media art

KW - activism

KW - gilbert simondon

KW - politics of affect

KW - pure experience

KW - counterpower

KW - more-than-human

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-2-9816413-2-8

SP - 91

EP - 97

BT - Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium of Electronic Arts - ISEA 2020

A2 - ISEA,

PB - Printemps Numerique Canada

CY - Montreal (Quebec)

Y2 - 13 October 2020 through 18 October 2020

ER -