Emergent constructions: Re‐embodied intelligence within recombinant poetic networks

Abstract

Computer‐mediated networks present an artistic medium that heightens the potential for an intermingling of the knowledge of the viewer with the ‘re‐embodied intelligence’ of an author or authors. Given that computers can house ‘recombinant’ digital elements of image, sound and text, how can the artist become an ‘author’ of responsive, self‐regulating systems which enable ‘intelligent’ emergent poetic responses to viewer interactivity via the encoding, mapping and modelling of operative poetic elements?

Keywords:

• re‐embodied intelligence
• network
• interactive
• emergent