Authors:
David Borgo and Jeff Kaiser
Abstract:
Drawing on our experiences as electro-acoustic improvisers in the duo KaiBorg (http://kaiborg.com) and on emerging theory in the social studies of technology and neocybernetics, this paper interrogates the ideologies that underpin notions of interaction and interactivity and it theorizes a notion of agency of a far more complex variety than that of traditional humanism. We suggest configurin(g) as a useful theoretical orientation in which users, technologies, and environments mutually constitute one another via strange loops of perturbation/compensation.
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Citation:
David Borgo and Jeff Kaiser, “Configurin(g) KaiBorg: Interactivity, Ideology, and Agency in Electro-Acoustic Improvised Music,” in Beyond the Centres: Musical Avant-Gardes Since 1950, ed. Costas Tsougras, Danae Stefanou, and Kostas Chardas (Thessaloniki, Greece: Aristotle University, 2010).