Carlie Norma Germs
Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia.
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In 2022 my Honours project asked how intra-activity and diffractive methodologies can be used to understand artist-artwork-viewer relationships within installation and digital media art practice. The term Intra-activity was proposed by quantum physicist and intersectional feminist scholar Karen Barad as description of the interconnection between matter. By adapting intra-activity to the context of installation and digital media art, the artist, artwork and viewer can be understood as entangled. Building on this understanding, My research explores the possible applications of intra-activity within art practice through the sharing of creative agency. In order to examine the significance of this application, I use the new materialist method of diffraction to read the research through the methods, outcomes and relationships which together co-constitute the creative practice. Subsequently, I find intra-activity to be entangled with digital and installation art practice through experimental debugging techniques, dance-floors, and machine-human collaborations. By diffracting digital installation practice with interpretations of intra-activity, patterns can be found which support alternative understandings of artist, artwork, and viewer relationships. Ultimately, intra-action is found to provide a frame though which both the artist’s relationship with the computer as a tool, and the viewer’s relationship with the computer as an art object, can be understood as being capable of distributing creative agency.
This project produced Feeback-Entanglement-Sequence, an interactive new media installation, documentation of the exhibition can be found here, and if you would like to enjoy a further 5198 words about this you can follow this link.
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Documentation of viewers interacting with Feedback-Entanglement-Sequence at the 2022 Curtin Fine Art Degree exhibition captured by machine vision or found on social media, captured and shared by viewers.
