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Messy assemblages, residuality and recursion within a phygital nexus

Messy assemblages, residuality and recursion within a phygital nexus
Messy assemblages, residuality and recursion within a phygital nexus
This visual essay is a reflection on the movement of objects and images within the phygital and, in particular, how different components of assemblages meet, mingle and sometimes experience ontological shifts, when an artist and an archaeologist, and their practices and apparatus, intra-act within a ‘phygital nexus’. Phygital objects are digitally defined but can be invoked, instantiated and brought into constellation with other entities both physically and virtually. A phygital nexus can be thought of as a no-place and an every-place where digital and physical worlds intersect; a space where novel, ‘messy assemblages’ can emerge. In our collaboration, we constantly subvert the phygital nexus to appropriate and remix components of multifaceted, multi-(im)material, and multi-temporal phygital objects that recall themselves - nested and extended assemblages of persistent (im)material artefacts and other residues - and refract them through both our distinct, and combined interdisciplinary, critical practices, to produce new ontological assemblages, further residues of an ongoing collaboration, which we map onto Gavin Lucas’ Grid of forces of assembly and disassembly.

The residues and traces of this reflexive collaboration includes this essay and an assemblage of art/archaeology forms that comment, recursively, on both previous and subsequent assemblages, and our practices.
2561-2379
Dawson, Ian
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Reilly, Paul
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Dawson, Ian
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Reilly, Paul
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Dawson, Ian and Reilly, Paul (2019) Messy assemblages, residuality and recursion within a phygital nexus. Epoiesen. (doi:10.22215/epoiesen/2019.4).

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This visual essay is a reflection on the movement of objects and images within the phygital and, in particular, how different components of assemblages meet, mingle and sometimes experience ontological shifts, when an artist and an archaeologist, and their practices and apparatus, intra-act within a ‘phygital nexus’. Phygital objects are digitally defined but can be invoked, instantiated and brought into constellation with other entities both physically and virtually. A phygital nexus can be thought of as a no-place and an every-place where digital and physical worlds intersect; a space where novel, ‘messy assemblages’ can emerge. In our collaboration, we constantly subvert the phygital nexus to appropriate and remix components of multifaceted, multi-(im)material, and multi-temporal phygital objects that recall themselves - nested and extended assemblages of persistent (im)material artefacts and other residues - and refract them through both our distinct, and combined interdisciplinary, critical practices, to produce new ontological assemblages, further residues of an ongoing collaboration, which we map onto Gavin Lucas’ Grid of forces of assembly and disassembly.

The residues and traces of this reflexive collaboration includes this essay and an assemblage of art/archaeology forms that comment, recursively, on both previous and subsequent assemblages, and our practices.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 16 March 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 439599
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439599
ISSN: 2561-2379
PURE UUID: 59a9b53f-a1a0-4785-9500-83125ab5c3e6
ORCID for Ian Dawson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3695-8582
ORCID for Paul Reilly: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-8991

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2020 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:51

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