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Embracing Interdependencies: Machines, Humans and Non-humans

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As a creator of interactive, constructed ecosystems, I discuss my artistic practice as a way to experience self as interdependent and to re-engineer relationships between humans and other species. Technologically enhanced mirroring, participation, re-programmed elements and designing for non-humans are examined as techniques that entangle the audience within the fabricated systems. Re-configuring the human participant as one element enmeshed within a system that equally includes technology, industry, waste streams and other living things, I work towards new models of collaboration and shared world building.

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  1. Department of Art, The Ohio State University, 258 Hopkins Hall, 128 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Amy M. Youngs

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  1. Faculty of Edu.,Sci, Tech and Maths, University of Canberra, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Damith Herath

  2. Lab, School of Design and Art, Curtin University, Alternate Anatomies, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Christian Kroos

  3. Lab, School of Design and Art, Curtin University, Alternate Anatomies, Perth, West Australia, Australia

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Youngs, A.M. (2016). Embracing Interdependencies: Machines, Humans and Non-humans. In: Herath, D., Kroos, C., Stelarc (eds) Robots and Art. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_6

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