Senses Feedback

Feedback contains loss, human progress leads towards the removal of loss, its trajectory is to the digital.

The desire to understand the nature of reality has been a recurring theme within intellectual discourse. Often the answer has been to attempt to ‘prove’ this nature through the most objective means possible to the thinker. Geometry has been used through the ages as a basis for this process. Immanuel Kant hypothesised that the laws of Euclidean geometry describe the innate spatial scaffolding in the human brain and that this scaffolding forms the intuitive basis of our perceptions. This base of geometry has often been transcribed through the application of mathematical equations which are then themselves converted either to create or confirm a theory. Finally the scientific methodology added the most objective proof to this, the experiment confirming the theory. The direction of this process is from the spatial into language. This process then is a transformative procedure used to prove an imperative or an axiom. This process is an algorithm and these algorithms have often produced unexpected results.

Artists work by filtering results and repeating them much as a scientist does, the outcome for the artist is not objective proof though. The work of art stands in necessary contact with the unknown, whereas scientific discovery constantly annexes the unknown to the known.

The allegory of Plato’s cave as described by kirsty in the first part of this symposium, is still an insightful and useful description of our sensory operation…