Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Merleau-Ponty, a phenomenologist concerned with embodied perception and the inseparability of subject from world, appears in the course readings to ground arguments about how observers and environments co-constitute meaning rather than existing as separate entities. His work on perception is cited to complicate the notion that detached observation yields clarity—instead suggesting that intimate involvement in an exchange necessarily shapes what can be perceived, a tension critical to understanding interactive systems and their participants. This framework becomes especially relevant when theorizing AI and artistic interaction, where the observer's embodied presence cannot be bracketed from the system's functioning.

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Claudia Jacques

Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

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In his 1957 “Creative Act” lecture, Marcel Duchamp established the concept of interactivity introducing a pseudo-arithmetical equation to explain the relationship between artist, spectator, and artwork. Aiming to stay neutral in judging the…observer who is intimately involved in bringing meaning to the exchange even as it is happening. This close proximity does not allow the observer to perceive form and details with maximum clarity (Merleau-Ponty 2015). But what if in our nee…of the different elements (communications modalities) in the Media Room while representing the HCI experience as if it were physically embodied via a simulated three-dimensional architecture. It was a brilliant solution at the time, but it …

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Ben Woodard

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Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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Phenomenologists like Foucault’s teacher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argue that the successful performance of everyday bodily tasks depends on the mutual incorporation of the instruments used to perform a task into the body and the dilation of ou…

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