With the “Rhythmdecoder for Somametric-Theory”, using sensor supported wearable technology like the Muse Headband i.e., I do not only try to resonate to technological developments and discuss the concepts of emotion and affect inscribed in the programs, but also want to negotiate the functioning of computing machines and the underlying mathematical concepts within the framework of a critique of algorithmic rationality. Based on the wearable, which generates data on the mental and emotional state of the wearer, the question of the meaning and nature of emotion and, subsequently, of cognition unfolds, which is negotiated through a relational perspective as embodied and formed as such through constant exchange with the surrounding milieu, i.e. by constantly drawing new boundaries (enactivism). Through the artistic transfer of mathematical concepts of logic, set theory, stochastics and arithmetic, on which formal systems are based, apparatuses are developed and built on which the production of the artistic text is based. Apparatus building, data generating, and artistic writing are all part of a performative act.
The own negotiation and metaphorical translation of the mathematical foundations of formal systems and computer technologies.
The preparation of data and the creation of different conditions for verse, which corresponds to writing within a formal system.
The generation of own body data through a wearable, which is evoked by reading and speaking artistic texts and then classified using common neuroscientific concepts of emotion and entered into the apparatus as raw data.
The composition of a new artistic text based on the generated verse.
What interference patterns arise when mathematical concepts of formal systems are incorporated into an apparative artistic translation, the functionality of which is revealed on the one hand and at the same time used to generate a verse measure from the raw data of the wearable within the formal logic?
Carolyn Amann
Carolyn Amann is an Austrian artist, performer and PhD candidate at the department of Media Theories at the University of Arts Linz. In her language-artistic and media-theoretical PhD project she deals with the effects of affect-sensitive media and Emotional AI in the context of techno-ecology. Since 2014, she has written stage works for theater and opera, which have premiered at the Landestheater Linz, Theater Münster, Wiener Konzerthaus and the Luzerner Theater, among others. In her performances, she combines poetic and dramatic writing with jazz and new music.