[ISEA2016] Paper: Chris Salter — Disturbance, Translation, Enculturation: A Research Program in New Media, Technology and the Senses

Abstract (short paper)

This article examines a research program centered at the nexus of five seemingly unrelated fields: art practice with new technologies, anthropology, cultural studies of technology, the development of new technologies that seek to make new forms of sensation, and Indigenous new media studies. First, I articulate a broader area of interdisciplinary research called sensory studies. Subsequently, and switching to the pronoun “we,” I briefly describe the aims of Sensory Entanglements: a collaborative research program that asks how different bodies and cultures can transform/resist dominant paradigms of power and oppression through the senses. Finally, I conclude with a broader set of questions around the increased role the senses are playing in the organization of new modes of political-socio-technical reason. [source: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/var.12156]

  • Chris Salter (CA) is an artist, Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, Co-Director of the Hexagram network for Research-Creation in Arts, Cultures and Technologies, Director of Hexagram Concordia and Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia.    chrissalter.com