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What could visual art afford for people involved in making technologies? Could artistic practices show us ways to embed technologies better in society?

In his inaugural lecture as Socrates Professor on the topic of Making Humane Technologies, Prof. Dr. Erik Rietveld aims to show that artistic practices afford embedding technologies better in society.

By analysing artworks made at RAAAF, an art collective that makes visual art and experimental architecture, he describes three aspects of making practices that may contribute to improving the embedding of technology in society.

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Photo by Kyoungtae Kim / Deltawerk - RAAAF

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Michael O'Connor and Alan Cienki take two seemingly disparate practices as the foci for this work — dance and prehistoric cave art — in order to illuminate commonalities in embodied practices that reveal new theoretical insights. Whereas dance clearly uses temporal traces of the body to shape space and create meaning, cave drawings have also begun to be explained and interpreted through kinesthetic and embodied metaphorical techniques. A key element that these fields have in common is the role of lines.

Considering the animate nature of lines and the kinesthetic response they have on the body, contemporary artistic practices can find parallels to the nature of ancient rock art if we recognize the similarity these fields share in the formation of and interpretation of meaning through movement and material engagement.

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This photo is a video still from the dance film “Between Foam and Origami” by Michael O’Connor.

Camera by Lukas Georgiou