[-empyre-] Thanks to all the guests from SenseLab!

[Lichty, Patrick]

Thanks to this month's participants in the Into the Midst conversation, and also an equal thanks for the list’s patience with my following the amorphous nature of our working process.  As we saw earlier on, an undeterministic approach to creativity can be at odds with more traditional modes of researching that have greater preconceptions in regards to expectations and outcomes.  This can be as challenging to the participants as the visitors to the interventions.

Another topic that was of great interest to the conversation was that of failure.  Was the event a failure because it did not maintain its suspension of time ad space during the intervention, or whether it did not integrate with the technological milieu in which it was placed?  Or, could we say that ITM was a Happening-based time of process that merely stayed “messy” in its way of working rather than suddenly cohering at the time of the intervention in the Dome?  

I think these are questions that will be taken forward into this year’s residency Biosclave, to happen this Fall.

Thanks again to Erin Manning for being my wingperson in this free-form discussion, along with Nathaniel Stern, Andrew Goodman, Bianca Scilar, Brian Massumi, Charlotte Farrell, Hannah, Zita, Mayra Morales, and everyone that made this discussion of Into the Midst so singular. 

Patrick Lichty
Assistant Professor, Interactive Arts & Media
Columbia College Chicago
916/1000 S. Wabash Ave #104
Chicago, IL USA 60605
"Some distractions demand constant practice."