an update and check-in as there have been no posts for a while here. The final show will be the end of september, and the planning is in the making. Mostly, the eternal question is how to present it in a way that respects the research and thought that has gone into it, and how to put this in its best light when in a 'gallery' setting...
More specifically, I have been trying to explain an alternative way of viewing. Of viewing technology in particular and its role in our understanding. It is always difficult to explain, or show something that (in my view) exemplifies a different way of seeing things. People misinterpret, or are too quick to assume an understanding without questioning.
I've always thought that, while you could view this as very philosophical, essentially it is very human. You either take the hard-line philosophical route, or the total intuitive human route. Technology is, and has always been an expression of being human. To follow this line of thought is to continue where science and philosophy stops. But to explain this (with words) well and more accurately, science and philosophy can help along the way.
Speaking of which, an online search for emergence and technology brings you to a text with these words as a title, and with Slavoj Žižek: the epitomy of philosophical bullshit. I've always hated how Heidegger is so concreted into philosophical circles, and cannot seem be taken out of it.
However, a quick scan of words reveal themselves better than the intention:
mystery, revealing, mythologisation & metamorphosis, unexplained & setting-upon nature, determinism & technology.
