2nd Order Perceptions
A test drilling at the controversial intersection between neurodiversity, self-empowerment and cybernetic brain-spill scenarios.
Proposition: Collection of prototypical patterns of so-called „2nd order perceptions“
Format: Visual Archive (web-based)
Technology: 3D-Animations
Strategy: crowd-sourcing, peer-review (on/offline)
Aim: Open source tool for Self-Empowerment in the cognitive field
Background
It’s not only due to the invention of the so-called social media that unprecedented masses of individuals are currently being confronted with an increased form of self-observation which real-time speed and mash-up style of web2.0 technologies force them into: Discrepancies of behaviour in on/offline situations show; an awareness of differences in using images/text or gimmicks/real content is raised; peer-group pressure in web 2.0 networks triggers redefinitions of the borders of the “self”.
All of these are perceptions that ever since the expansion of the internet and improvement of graphics cards (game culture) have had enough impact on a large community of watchful media prosumers so as to evoke a media theory hype which this time reached all parts of society. Whereas Cognitive Sciences and Cybernetics were initially only known to highly specialized experts, and i.e. in 2002 I still had to explain the links between media culture, disability studies and emotion research to an amazed audience (during the Symposion Perception Geographies that I curated for Medienforum Muenchen), 7 years later, in 2009, the subject of mutual formatting of media and senses was self-evident also to non-professional visitors of the Conference What kind of sensual set-up is generated by new media? (Society for Media Studies, Vienna).
Considering the rising number of artistic research projects at the intersection of media culture and cognitive sciences, it is almost astonishing that this research branch must argue for its legitimate membership in net culture contexts.
The fact is: Media theory and anthropological theories of the brain as network-driven organ are closing ranks. The current interest of artists in cerebral functions could be seen as “Real Social Media” Research, born from the recent IT-Hype and millions of media-based self-experiences. Adopting a macroscopic, google-earth like top view, one could even go a step further and ask: what, if not self-monitoring – sort of as the most recent tool of evolution – are “Really New Media”?
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