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My future work will probably revolve around a 'psychogeography' of language and relational aesthetics. My usual means is video poetry, but I hope to expand into larger installations and maybe into interactive work. Here are some of the sources I will use to inform this work.
Bibliography
Languages and Automata (course notes, Alexandra Silva)
Regular Languages and Finite Automata (Andrew Pitts)
Both of the above works deal with language in computing. They include definitions of language, deterministic and non-deterministic models, regular expressions, and formulae. (Inspirational on the level of notions and terms and also in comparison with other ideas and formulae around language found eg. in the disciplines of semantics or syntax).
Mainframe Experimentalism (Hannah Higgins)
This compilation brings the world of language and computing together, as creation and as a space for experimentation. It includes examples of media art containing language. (Inspirational for artistic practice).
Computing as Writing (Andrew Pitts)
This work investigates the role of the programmer (and general computer worker) as an author. It approaches the themes of labor and creativity. (Useful when dealing with biases and assumptions around meaning).
Phenomenology of Spirit (GWF Hegel)
This work deals in depth with the creation of consciousness and the advancement to a higher, informed and intellectual consciousness. It places emphasis on the dialectical space (and this is exactly the space that interests me).
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
A simple man commits murder and is trialed and sentenced for it. (The indifferent, detached way the character experiences his life, the things considered crucial during his trial [his morality, judged mainly by the way he relates to his mother] are an interesting study of the social dynamics and the way the modern person is shaped).
Artificial Hells (Claire Bishop)
An overview of socially engaged participatory art, that also happens to be a critique of (participatory) art used as a means of mildening our take on social issues and creating a false sense of taking action. It includes official cultural policies that use participatory art as part of their post-industrial economic policies (The Netherlands is an important example in the beginning of the book) and rob its anti-authoritarian, subversive force.
Uncreative Writing (Kenneth Goldsmith)
A look into forms of writing beyond literature and their importance in offering a fresh look into the way we perceive the world and how we write about the world. Poetics created through appropriating and reconstructing already existing work as a post modern practice and as a means of activating archives and upcycling old work particularly interest me.
A User's Guide to Détournement (Guy Debord, Gil J. Wolman)
A short overview and manifesto of the concept of détournment. Creating new, often contradictory context through something that is either considered insignificant or is already a socially accepted or appropriated concept, symbol, work etc. Détournement is also connected to psychogeography, in the sense of finding ways to escape the experiential imperatives of (urban) landscapes.
https://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm
The Making up of People (Ian Hacking)
Ian Hacking introduces the key term "dynamic nominalism" or the way people adjust themselves in order to fit into descriptions and self-descriptions.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n16/ian-hacking/making-up-people
Historical Ontology and Psychological Description (Jeff Sugarman)
A look into dynamic nominalism from a psychological point of view.