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I found Edward Shanken’s take on Technoshamanism deeply fascinating, especially his refusal to treat nature and technology as opposing forces. What really stood out to me was the idea of artists acting as modern shamans using wet (biological), dry (silicon), and moist technologies to build symbiotic relationships between humans, machines, and the broader ecosystem. His framing of interdisciplinary art as a psychic dress rehearsal for the future is a compelling way to look at how we might navigate our current ecological crises. Ultimately, the paper completely shifted my perspective, leaving me thinking a lot about how we can repurpose emerging tech not just for standard innovation, but as genuine tools for expanding consciousness and planetary healing.
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They present a fascinating exploration of liveness in electronic music by contrasting the diametrically opposed performance philosophies of stadium DJ Deadmau5 and free improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey. By placing the highly predictable and playback based spectacles of Deadmau5 at one end of a continuum and the spontaneous real time composition of Bailey at the other, the authors effectively carve out a distinct theoretical space for the practice of live coding. This persuasively argues that, contrary to popular assumptions about laptop musicians merely pressing play live coding actually aligns much closer to traditional instrumental improvisation. By actively exposing the compositional labor through projected code and treating software as a fluid, real-time medium, live coders reclaim the laptop not just as a studio tool for reproduction but as a genuine musical instrument capable of spontaneous, unscripted expression.
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After reading Rosa Menkman’s Glitch Studies Manifesto, what stands out most is her argument that we should stop viewing technological errors simply as problems that need to be fixed. Instead of constantly chasing the impossible goal of a perfect, invisible interface, Menkman suggests that glitches and digital noise actually give us a valuable peek behind the curtain of our technology. When a system breaks, it interrupts our blind trust and reveals the hidden rules, biases, and flaws built into the software we use every day. I really appreciate how the manifesto frames these moments of technical failure not as a dead end, but as a creative spark, a chance to bend the rules, question the digital systems that govern our lives, and build something entirely new out of the broken pieces.