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Critical Appropriations of Biosensors in Artistic Practice

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Teoma J. Naccarato,

John MacCallumAuthors Info & Claims

MOCO '17: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3077981.3078053

Published: 28 June 2017 Publication History

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In this article we discuss the ethical and æsthetic implications of the appropriation of biomedical sensors in artistic practice. The concept of cross-disciplinary appropriation is elaborated with reference to Guattari's ethico-æsthetic paradigms, and Barad's metaphor of diffraction as methodology. In reviewing existing artistic projects with biosensors, we consider ways in which the recontextualization of technologies, and likewise techniques, can both propagate and violate disciplinary expectations and approaches. We propose that by way of critical appropriations of biosensors in artistic practice---that is to say, de- and re-contextualizations of biosensors that acknowledge the shift of ecology and epistemology---artists have a vital role to play in troubling reductive representations of bodies, and further-more, destabilizing the ethico-æsthetic boundaries of differently constituted disciplines.

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Critical Appropriations of Biosensors in Artistic Practice
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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MOCO '17: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Movement Computing

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DOI:10.1145/3077981

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