I have always thought of technology as a source of disconnect, despite its ability to connect people and overcome distances, I believe modern day use of it led to a detachment from our realities. I have connected with works that use digital media previously, but there is still a kind of disconnect in how we experience it, where media can start to feel distant or not entirely real. Reading this challenged that assumption of mine in a way I did not expect. When the text describes how these practices can create expanded or layered forms of awareness, particularly the idea of “seeing at once both inward realities and the outward surfaces of the world,” it made me reconsider whether technology has to produce that sense of separation. Even though I am still unfamiliar with many of the concepts being discussed, several of the examples stood as an representation ot me of what technology is capable of achieving, instead of an isolation away from reality, it is capable of creating a kind of dual consciousness, where it does not pull us away from the world but allows us to engage with it in a more complex and connected way.
Entering a state where I connect with my work is something that I did feel while live coding at some point. During such times, everything seems to work smoothly and the creation process is less about exerting effort into crafting something and more about bringing to life something that emerges. Until reading the text, I had never seen this phenomenon as being relevant to any other notion but the process of coding itself. This realization made me wonder about what else can be done with live coding and how the possibilities may be extended to the creation of something that remains open-ended. Rather than serving as a representation of my concept, a creation can remain in progress and continue evolving through time. Although this idea is somewhat unexpected, it also sounds intriguing since it brings a whole new perspective on what I may create and achieve. Particularly the ability to create a state of consciousness for others also intrigued me, proving to me the capabilities our there that can come out of live coding.