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Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace

Proposition I

Our inquiry is about changing relationships between human and non-human worlds, in what Whitehead calls “mysterious reality in the background, intrinsically unknowable“. We’re particularly interested in exploring ecological connections between worldviews, including kami (shinto), viriditas (christian mysticism) and panpsychism (philosophy). How can we translate animist or mystical attitudes towards interconnectedness of all life into worldviews compatible with contemporary (or future) techno-materialist societies? What kinds of relationships between human and non-human worlds could be cultivated in an era of mass-extinction? What parallel arts, sciences or technologies become possible if we widen the sentience spectrum? Our focus is on creating experiences to convey or encourage a sense of wonder (e.g. rituals, celebrations, contemplative environments, expeditions, physical narratives, etc). Our media include Romantic Machines, the vegetal mind, expanded publications, human scale systems, non-human technologies and various “disruptive acts of beauty”.

Field notes

Fieldtrip I

… dust trails / transit / May 02017

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Revised itinerary (due to a delayed flight):

FoAM's FieldNotes #1 on Medium

Ron Broglio's List 1 and Thoughts on Cairns and Animism

(Planned but not visited:

Memorable foods:

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TBC

How all of this might unfold (TBC and subject to change without notice)


  • Spring 2017 (may/june): fieldtrip, observations, questions, travelogue, etc.
  • Summer 2017 (july/august): articulating research questions, literature research, mapping, etc.
  • Fall 2017 (november/december): research retreat, formulating hypotheses/propositions for experiments, commonplace publication v.1
  • Spring 2018: temporary FoAM lab @ ASU: prototyping, experiment (first iteration), FoAM's 'injections' in (graduate) courses, commonplace publication v.2 (fieldguide for further experiments)
  • Fall 2018 (or spring 2019): Second action research cycle, ending in a public experiment, printed publication (and possibly an 'exploded publication' in the form of an exhibition)
  • (+ continuous online documentation)
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Synthesis research streams:

Rhythmanalysis research stream (multiple projects): http://rhythmanalysis.weebly.com/
Time Lenses: http://rhythmanalysis.weebly.com/time-lenses-apparatus.html

Improvisational environments http://improvisationalenvironments.weebly.com/

Lighting and rhythm http://lightingrhythm.weebly.com/

Experiential Model of the Atmosphere http://synthesiscenter.net/projects/ema/

Trace


We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. –McKenzie Wark

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