THE CONVERSATION: Feedback Structures, Ways of Knowing, and Neurodivergence. (1st June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Holt, Allison Leigh
• Is Part Of: Public. Volume 30:Number 59(2019)
• Page Start: 104
• Page End: 112
• Publication Date: 2019-06-01
• Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Periodicals; Art -- Exhibitions -- Periodicals; Aesthetics -- Periodicals; Art -- Periodicals; 705
• DOI: 10.1386/public.30.59.104_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0845-4450

Abstract

This paper discusses communication as a community of feedback systems. Arguing that meaningful communication between human and non-human species is contingent upon first reconsidering human understandings of human consciousness and cognition, the author identifies axes of communication as perceiving-sensing, adjusting-processing, and responding-exchanging, beyond language. Drawing upon theories of enactivism and her work teaching media to neurodivergent students, the author proposes experimental time-based media as a useful model for communication between humans and the not-quite-fixed world of all things that exist, with or without categorization, and between those things themselves.