“Preliminary Investigations on How to Love a Machine: Apprehending Art Through a Science Aesthetic” presented by Durbach
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Art Science (full papers)
Presentation Title:
- Preliminary Investigations on How to Love a Machine: Apprehending Art Through a Science Aesthetic
Presentation Subtheme:
- Speculative practices
Presenter(s):
Abstract:
The purpose of science is to interpret phenomena through measurement and analysis to understand why it is the way it is in the world. The art humans are compelled to make is a phenomenon and we reasoned that in many cases, presents measurable attributes. This author – a former scientist – subjected his art process and the resulting works to scientific modelling and scrutiny to see what valid scientific narrative could emerge. The system measured was a machine (termed a stochastic apparatus) with irregular behaviour placed in different environmental contexts. Measurable attributes regarding the machine’s behavior as well as its interactions with its environment were analysed. The stochastic apparatus was shown to have regular behaviour at the core and untune-able and chaotic behaviour at its periphery. The untune-able behaviour nucleated behaviours in people interacting with it which could be modelled using a system’s theory lens while considering the participant as a component of the system – a peculiarity resulting from the behaviour and particularities of the machine. We concluded that although preliminary, this artistic approach may provide a framework to interact with complex systems that have more degrees of freedom such as emerging generative Artificial Intelligence.
