Det klarnar / Emerging
Det klarnar / Emerging is part of a larger research effort to investigate how sensory composition of a being, digital or biological, determine the awareness, the memory and the self. This materialization of theoretical reasoning exemplifies three digital beings with each a different means of acting in the world, and a sense to register its own actions. Through acting and sensing in a recursive feedback loop the electronic constructions create a fleeing memory of their being in a specific space at a certain time.
The digital beings are design to not give room for mystification or imitation of biological life, but to reveal its simple construction of wood and electronic components. They are nothing but machines. Still their emerging behavior are too complex to be deconstructed solely through observation. The behaviors are a memory pattern unique to the placement and the design of the digital being as well as to the environment. Might this uniqueness constitute moral grounds for not pulling the power to these machines?
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→ Konstfack, Stockholm. March 2010.