•  Media&Art&

•  Internet&Studies&•  Audio&Engineering&and&Communica5ons&

•  Biological&Science&•  Computer&Science&

•  Deleuze's&transla5on&of&Bergsonism,&par5cularly&regarding&intui5ve&method&is&a&fundamental&considera5on&within&crea5ve&produc5on,&be&it&programming,&scien5fic&inquiry&or&crea5ve&media&prac5ce.&For&Deleuze,&intui5ve&thought&is&more&like&a&narra5ve&than&an&instantaneous&‘eureka’&moment."In"order"to"understand"Deleuzian"intui1on"it"is"important"to"situate"it"within"the"Bergsonian"departure"from"a"structuralist"no1on"of"reality"in"terms"of"space,"in"favour"of"the"metaphysical"idea"that"reality"should"be"understood"in"terms"of"1me.&For&Deleuze,&intui5on&"reconcatenates&thought&to&beings&as&the&coKpresence&of&a&being&of&the&simulacrum&and&of&a&simulacrum&of&Being."&&

•  My"Research"offers"a"contribu1on"to"an"emerging"culturally"orientated"discourse"regarding"syncre1c,"hybridized"agency,"par1cularly"in"mixed"reality"data"transfer"systems."Recent"developments"in"bridging"autonomous"rela1onships"with"digital"representa1on"through"mixed"reality"interfacing,"have"brought"about"the"need"for"further"analysis"of"these"new"‘postCbiological’,"hybridized"states"of"being"that"traverse"tradi1onal"paradigms"of"1me"and"space."Roy"AscoF’s"concept"of"syncre1sm"may"facilitate"further"understanding"of"mul1Clayered"world"views,"both"material"and"metaphysical,"that"are"emerging"from"our"engagement"with"such"pervasive"computa1onal"technologies"and"postCbiological"systems."Syncre1sm"has"tradi1onally"been"regarded"as"an"aFempt"to"harmonise"and"analogise."&

•  Ci1ng"recent"examples"of"prac1cal"

research"outcomes,"this"research"

analyses"what"Gilles"Deleuze"and"Fèlix"

GuaFari"have"called"‘deterritorialisa1on’"

of"the"human"body"through"its"

dispersion"throughout"mul1ple"reality"

manifesta1ons"and"how"mixed"reality"

data"transfer"might"cons1tute"a"

‘reterritorialising’"effect"on"syncre1c"

postCbiological"digital"iden1ty"

construc1on."""

•  It&is&a&popular&belief&that&we&are&now,&through"a"media"convergent,"par1cipatory"culture"(that&is&

integrated&socially&through&a&sub&network&of&

plaMorms)&crea1ng&what&was&first&coined&in&

1997&as&collec%ve'intelligence!by&Pierre&Lévy,&which&exists&in&a&‘global&village’&of&knowledge&

(data)&transfer.&This"perspec1ve"evades"

tradi1onal"mythological"no1ons"of"

anthropomorphic"interac1on"as"it"moves"

beyond"the"individual"and"into"a"universal"

model"of"open"access"

Steigler&and&Promethean&Alchemy&

•  Networked&agency&destabilises&tradi5onal&orthodoxies&of&thought&through&challenging&

no5ons&of&representa5on,&confron5ng&

materialism,&accelera5ng&and&smoothing&social&

engagement&and&most&importantly,&demanding&

par5cipa5on&in&these&open&systems&of&

collabora5ve&engagement.&This&has&redefined&

our&understandings&of&consciousness&and&

presence&in&way&that&requires&rethinking&

everything&from&spirituality,&5me&and&space,&

esotericism,&agency,&emergence,&quantum&

coherence&through&to&ero5cism.&&

•  It"is"in"Deleuze's"dis1nc1on"between"different"degrees"of"'power'"that"I"see"

Bergsonism,"that"is,"the"intui1ve"method,"

and"Steigler's"technics"coming"together."In"

looking"at"'power'"one"must"dis1nguish"

between"the"two"French"words"puissance"

and"pouvoir.&&

•  "In"social"terms,"puissance"is"immanent"

power,"power"to"act"rather"than"power"to"

dominate"another;"we"could"say"that"

puissance"is"praxis"(in"which"equals"clash"or"

act"together)"rather"than"poiesis"(in"which"

others"are"maFer"to"be"formed"by"the"

command"of"a"superior,"a"sense"of"

transcendent"power"that"matches"what"

pouvoir"indicates"for"Deleuze)”K&Steigler&&

Terra(Socio)Sonica:"Pouvior"Piussance"

What&my&projects&aim&to&aritculate&

•  Innova5ve&actualisa5ons&of&realK5me&data&

transfer&systems&that&incorporate&biological&

informa5on&and&mixed&reality&applica5ons&as&

ar5s5c&mediums&are&a&crea5ng&a&new&no5on&

of&postKbiological&digital&iden5ty.&&

•  PostKBiological&Discourse&Defined&in&Reference&to&Real&Time&Networked&Data&

Transfer&

•  PostCbiological,"in"this"sense,"refers"to"a"redefini1on"of"the"embodied"subject"which"encompasses"their"loca1on"

in"virtual"environments"as"well"as"in"the"physical."This"

involves"the"crea1on,"through"art"prac1ce,"of"what"we"

might"term"autonomous"agents"that"are"born"from"data"

but"which"take"on"the"appearance"of"bioCforms"and"thus"

become'embodied."At"the"same"1me"these"agents"are"a"

differen1al"embodiment"of"the"‘bodies’,"which"first"

generated"that"data"in"their"everyday"ac1vi1es.""

ROY&ASCOTT’S&PARADIGM&&&

In"regards"to"real"1me"digital"par1cipa1on"

this"thinking"interrogates"the"meaning"and"

consequences"of"the"possibility"of"such"

‘agents’"and,"in"doing"so,"enables"us"to"

ques1on"the"no1on"that"informa1on,"once"

extracted"from"the"embodied"self"and"placed"

within"a"computer"system,"becomes"

‘bodiless’."In"posing"that"ques1on"we"

discover"that,"contrary"to"what"we"might"at"

first"assume,"data"is"also"embodied.&&

Embodied&Informa5on&&

•  The&existence&of&‘embodied&informa5on’,&linked&to&and&yet&not&the&same&as&embodied&selves,&creates&an&interface&through&which&humans&nego5ate&their&iden55es&across&the&boundaries&of&different&reality&states,&more&or&less&virtual,&and&yet&always&involving&the&mapping&or&wri5ng&of&that&iden5ty&onto&‘a&body’.&By"having"bodies"both"material"and"virtual,"humans"have"become"postCbiological"even"as"their"biology"remains"the"primary"point"of"reference"for"the"data"gathering,"which"enables"this"transi1on"to"occur.&&

REDEFINING&DELEUZE&AND&GUATTARI&

IN&REGARDS&TO&AGENCY&AND&REAL&

TIME&VIRTUAL&SIMULATIONS&

&•  In&Difference!and!Repe--on!Deleuze&introduces&the&no5on&of&deterritorialisa5on&(through&dispersion)&as&a&“dark&precursor”&that&“relates"heterogeneous"systems"and"even"completely"disparate"things.”"In"order"for"deterritorialisa1on"to"occur"there"must"be"some"form"of"agent"that"can"remain"constant"and"selfCreferent.&Deleuze&and&Guatarri&state&that:&“The"alignment"of"the"code"or"linearity"of"the"nucleic"sequence"in"fact"marks"a"threshold"of"deterritorialisa1on"of"the"“sign”"that"gives"it"a"new"ability"to"be"copied&and&makes&the&organism&more&deterritorialised&than&a&crystal:&only"something"deterritorialised"is"capable"of"reproducing"itself.”""

REDEFINING&DELEUZE&AND&GUATTARI&

IN&REGARDS&TO&AGENCY&AND&REAL&

TIME&VIRTUAL&SIMULATIONS&

&•  Virtual"reality’"s"hybridiza1on"with"physical"and"biological"architectures"is"constructed"by"the"methods"used"to"connect"

the"environments.&The"combina1on"and"cohesion"of"

heterogeneous"elements"is"generally"problema1c,&

par5cularly&when&a&three&dimensional&space&is&primarily&

viewed&on&a&two&dimensional&plane.&The"integra1on"of"virtual"

elements"and"physical"environments"relies"on"bridging"the"

two"spaces"with"dynamic"interfaces"that"are"simultaneously"

accessible"and"able"to"be"openly"engaged"with,"edited"and"

developed."To"create"integra1on"systems"that"network"

physical"and"virtual"data"shared"loca1ons"are"required"in"

order"to"represent"the"data"in"a"meaningful"way,"that"is"

inclusive"of"both"environments.&&

ORGANTRADER2010&

ROY"ACOTT"AND"SYNCRETISM"

•  pathway:&>cyberne5c&>telema5c&

>syncre5c&

•  mindset:&reac5ve&>interac5ve&

>psychoac5ve&

CONTEXTUALISING&SYNCRETIC&POSTK

BIOLOGICAL&DIGITAL&SYSTEMS&AND&

IDENTITY&

•  All&virtual&environments&uses&a&a&form&of&

agent&to&navigate&users&through&the&space.&

While&these&are&usually&controlled&by&the&user&

(avatars&can&of&course&be&automated&and&lei&

on&their&own,&plus&there&are&bots&etc&being&

regularly&created&and&used),&they&func5on&as&

independent&to&their&‘master’&and&are&

therefore&autonomous.&&

CONTEXTUALISING&SYNCRETIC&POSTK

BIOLOGICAL&DIGITAL&SYSTEMS&AND&

IDENTITY&

•  While&they&may&lose&their&func5on&without&a&

user,&agents&do&s5ll&exist&as&digital&data/

archives&and&oien&experiences&with&such&

en55es&are&remembered&independently&of&

any&knowledge&of&the&viewer.&&

•  Avatars&represent&a&transient,&con5nually&altered&iden5ty,&usually&that&of&its&author&and&acts&as&an&

agent,&through&which&users&can&engage&with&

virtual&plaMorms.&This&becomes&par5cularly&

interes5ng&in&unique&autonomous&systems&where&

par5cipants&can&physically&interact&with&a&virtual&

deterritorialised&‘self’&and&mediate&it&through&

physical&engagement.&The&dispersion&of&mul5ple&

autonomous&virtual&agents&via&mixed&reality&

constructs&in&expands&deterritorialisa5on&to&

include&reterritorialisa5on,&by&facilita5ng&a&

dispersive&rela5onship&between&the&body&and&its&

virtual&selfKreferent.&

•  In"the"same"way"that"a"digital"device"

deterritorialises"and"reterritorialises"

informa1on"through"binary"code,"the"

augmenta1on"of"an"autonomous"agent"into"a"

shared"space"with"the"body,"creates"new"

opportuni1es"for"inves1ga1on"into"

technology,"the"body"and"iden1ty.""

•  The"advent"of"nanobiology"has"called"for"a"rethinking"of"Hayles"and"

Harraways’"postChuman"discourse"

through"it"shibing"our"percep1on"of"

organisms"from"micro"to"nano"scale.""

•  Today"nanotechnology"exists"as"a"living"sensa1on"of"the"future"of"human"existence:"In"Milburn’s"words,"“[A]"bodily"registra1on"of"poten1al"for"global"change.”"Brian"Massumi"states,"“The"body,sensor"of"change,"is"a"transducer"of"the"virtual.”"Through"exis1ng"in"these"virtual"representa1ons,"that"are"directly"linked"to"living"bioC"systems,"we"effec1vely"sense,"feel"and"think"in"a"way"that"hybridizes"the"virtual"with"scien1fic"inquiry,"and"therefore"we"require"a"discourse"that"addresses"how"this"does"in"fact"make"us"postCbiological.""

“Just"as"cyberne1cs"analogizes"

differences"between"systems,"so"

syncre1sm"finds"likeness"between"

unlike"things."Syncre1c"thinking"

breaches"boundaries"and"subverts"

protocols."Thinking"out"of"the"box,"

tes1ng"the"limits"of"language,"

behaviour"and"thought"puts"the"

ar1st"on"the"edge"of"social"norms"

but"at"the"centre"of"human"

development.”"CAscoF""

•  As"art"is"fundamentally"an"ar1cula1on"of"the"

human"condi1on"it"can"therefore"be"said"that"

syncre1sm"is"also"a"valid"method"for"analysing"

iden1ty"within"the"postCbiological"discourse."If"

we"are"indeed"postCbiological"then"we"must"

exist"in"syncre1c"mixed"reality"state."The"

hybridisa1on"of"augmented"reality"and"virtual"

environments"with"physical/biological"systems"

calls"for"a"rethinking"of"not"only"posthuman"

ideologies,"but"also"the"way"that"cyberne1c"

systems"func1on.""

•  Through"the"crea1on"of"systems"that"

engage"the"viewer"in"a"hybridized"

par1cipatory"interac1on"with"mixed"

reality"data"transfer,"these"no1ons"of"

deterritorialisa1on,"reterritorialisa1on,"

syncre1sm"and"post"biological"iden1ty"

can"be"explored"in"a"more"intui1ve"and"

involved"fashion.&&