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QATIPANA Individuation processes on the relationship between Art, Machine and Natural Systems
Updated: May 6, 2022
How does mono-technology and computerization of cultural techniques influence the nature of knowledge and the affection of being with others (people, things, nature)?
The work revolves around the concepts and processes of Becoming and Individuation through a hybrid ecosystem whose architecture is called Qatipana (Quechua word that means flow, sequence, transmission), is an hybrid ecosystem of information flow which, even though not the kind of dispositive systems theory was designed to read, offers some valuable empirical insights to test some key aspects of Simondon’s information processing systems; this research aims to observe a algorithmic cycle performed by the cognitive system of an Artificial Intelligence agent observing a living ecosystem.
Relational Creativity
This project considers cybernetization processes as a generalized ecology concerned with life and the production, exchange and consumption of meaning. We therefore believes that cybernetization can lay the foundation for an ecological explanation that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within ecological systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original reach of living organisms and their environments to ecologies of ideas, power, institutions, media, etc. In this sense, cybernetization would be radically environmental, since it postulates the primacy of relationships over fixed terms, binary oppositions, and linear logics.
Hybrid Ecology
We use the term hybrid ecologies to critically evaluate the historical and political dimensions of a "universality" of technology in the Latin American context and suggests that a homeotechnological conversion of the human noosphere and technosphere around the Earth, and thus of the institution of a co-operative and co-productive relation of both anthropospheres with the biosphere, might eventually lead to the explication or unconcealing – here meant in the quasi-Heideggerian sense of the term – of a “hybrid-Earth” that is capable of much more than we can now imagine from our still allotechnologically programmed perspective, i.e., a homeotechnologized Earth whose capacities might very well be multiplied to an unimaginable extent (Pieter Lemmens and Yuk Hui 2017).
Enactive autonomy in computational systems
In the artificial agent Qatipana, phenomenological observation at the bottom-up level is a fundamental relational coordination for the construction of the Umwelt of each organism at a given moment, as well as the tunnel formed by the sum of its successive vital moments, what Uexküll calls tunnel of life, is fixed and is not subject to change. Understood as an alternative to this ontogenetic explanation, the concept of the symbiotic body in Qatipana can be seen as the transduction of the organism and the machinic environment, this symbiosis provides a better original (technical) complementary model for the precise reason that it invests in the creativity of the incarnation.
"Machinic creativity not as the attribute of a technical individual, but as an operation of regulation of the technical assemblage", Gilbert Simondon.
This work is designed to be projected on 3 screens where the 3 mentioned ecological conditions are observed (The Organic, The Organic/Inorganic and The Culturally Calculable).
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Link project: https://qatipana.org/
This project considers cybernetization processes as a generalized ecology concerned with life and the production, exchange and consumption of meaning. We therefore believes that cybernetization can lay the foundation for an ecological explanation that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within ecological systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original reach of living organisms and their environments to ecologies of ideas, power, institutions, media, etc. In this sense, cybernetization would be radically environmental, since it postulates the primacy of relationships over fixed terms, binary oppositions, and linear logics.