Feedback Loops

An exploration of how diversified multimedia interactions can create positive feedback loops. When the boundaries between the digital and the physical are dissolved, consumption, perception and attention define the conception of one's reality. Passive consumption dictated by the attention economy, where agency, critical thought, and self-determination are diminished, creates negative feedback loops, where scrolling, disconnection, and meaninglessness remain. Active consumption led by human connection, creation, and curation allows positive feedback loops to emerge, where personal interrelatedness with the objects of our attention constructs meaning through experience. A multimedia art journey of feedback loops between the pieces featured in this playlist and my curated selection of books—an encounter of the digital with the analog as an ode to sense-making through interconnectedness perceived through my body: 1. Cosmic Body - Prelude for Rational Freshness - Orbital By Samantha Harvey 2. Political Body - Object - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 3. Systemic Body - Veille infinie - 24/7 by Jonathan Crary 4. Autonomous Body - re-c(O)unting - Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami 5. Fragmented Body - Deep Ocean Blue - Bluets by Maggie Nelson 6. Existential Body - Everything Is Absolutely Fine - Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 7. Contextual Body - This Happened Yet Is Happening - Mythologies by Roland Barthes 8. Decaying Body - subassemblies - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 9. Essential Body - Singularity - When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut