Materiality in Motion: Ecologies of Transformation

Abstract

In 1979 Rosalind Krauss laid bare the root cause or conditions of possibility that led to the transitory shift to post modernism. Envisioned through a series of Klein diagrams, a mathematical model borrowed from the social sciences her seminal work proved an inspiring model. Last year preliminary post-graduate research posed the question "Where do our bodies begin and end in a networked world?" Adopting a similar approach to Krauss I examine the sociological shift in primary communication from the physical (face-to-face) to the virtual (text-messaging) across a pre/post digital timeframe. Focusing upon Maurice Merleau Ponty's concept of intercorporeality I reimagine, via what may be termed 'extended positioning', interaffectivity through the mapping of the affective dimension. The concluding position, presented at the AAANZ conference in Melbourne last year, continues to inform my research and creative practice.