reWrite

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Description
The focus of an artwork such as reWrite is identity. The work addresses this theme through the use of interactive systems, where the relationship between the viewer and the artwork is explicit and active. This act of interaction functions to raise questions concerning being and, through the process of communication, the linguistic foundations of identity.
Art is the human activity that can confound the basic sense and allow us to see things in a way we might otherwise never have considered. It is in the creation of disjuncture between the thing and its representation that we come to see the thing and its relation to other things (particularly ourselves) anew. In seeking to disturb the manner in which we see things, and thus our accepted notion of self as constructed through seeing, the objective is to destabilise our sense in self.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • contextual
    • installation-based
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
        • projectors
    • interfaces
      • body sensors
        • body tracking
Technology & Material
Installation Requirements / Space
The primary point of differentiation we employ in order to maintain our sense of internal unity and uniqueness is that between self and other. The intent in a work such as reWrite is to suggest a subjective failure of differentiation and a re-positing of self as non-singular, de-centred and distributed.

An issue here is how communication and creativity function in respect of the differentiation of self. This is a subject within the general field of ontology and it could be argued that this could be described as of an onto-poetic (see note below) nature; the manner in which self is brought into being through semiosis, as meaning arises from the interaction of signifying elements.
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