[-empyre-] Welcome to Anne Balsamo our guest moderator for May, 2012:, Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work

[jonCates]

ok, thnx for the clarifications Anne

it seems that this term is meant to express a field at the intersections of
art, design, communications, etc; correct?

Julian Oliver, whois onList here oftentimes, develops / deploys the
term Critical Engineering:

http://criticalengineering.org

in collaboration w/Gordan Savičić + Danja Vasiliev. Oliver's own work
utilizes approaches that yr also drawing from:

http://julianoliver.com

in particular, his:

http://theartvertiser.com

&&

http://julianoliver.com/insertions.html

projects are ways in which he imagines / articulates sum current
possibilities w/ sum similar topics @ play in the work as the areas of
research + activity that yr work articulates / activates

which brings me to wonder outloud about yr use of the term 'emergent'. does
it mean 'emerging' in the sense of existing but young + potentially
promising? + / or does it mean emergent in the sense of systems that become
complex from simple seeds, flowering into patterns of density +
entanglement / intricacy / multiplicities that could not have been
previously predicted / predetermined?

i imagine this question above is rltd to yr concept of
'technological imagination', a concept i am also curious about in this
months conversation. in terms of 'emergent', in relation
to 'technological imagination', i read in yr previous answer that an
anticipatory quality is important to you. is that correct? does that make /
mean that the 'emergent' && the 'technological imagination' are about
future states for you / in yr work?

thnx
// jonCates
Associate Professor
Film, Video, New Media & Animation dept
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://systemsapproach.net
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