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Tacit Engagement: Betwixt and Inbetween

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Abstract

This chapter brings the discussion from the previous four chapters together and develops it further. Firstly, it summarises what has been learned about the conception of an interactive and mediating interface, irrespective of specific contexts and technologies. The chapter ties together theory and practice across the various contexts to identify the foundational elements of a personal act of knowing within human relations. It looks to the future at what we need to consider as the foundations for human – technology relations for developing the relational interface, extending this discussion with fundamental philosophical and artistic questions being raised by the arts/performance arts about the relational in performance and human connectivity. A theoretical introduction is followed by a discussion of eight projects of artistic and design research, in which a new scientific paradigm is explored. The result is the formulation of the concept of ‘tacit engagement’.

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Notes

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    This concept of the relational although related, differs from that of ‘relational interaction’ (e.g. Breazeal and Picard 2009) where it denotes the relationships between people.

  2. 2.

    http://rhoadley.net/research/touching/index.php. See also Aaron et al. (2013).

  3. 3.

    http://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/tangible-media

  4. 4.

    http://rhoadley.net/comp/fluxustree/

  5. 5.

    See chapter one for a fuller discussion.

  6. 6.

    Sha refers to Guattari’s work, Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm (1992).

  7. 7.

    http://fo.am/

  8. 8.

    http://integratron.com/

  9. 9.

    http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/transform/

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Gill, S.P. (2015). Tacit Engagement: Betwixt and Inbetween. In: Tacit Engagement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21620-1_5

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