Lina Dib

Artist / Anthropologist @ Rice U

[ROCO @ROCOHouston]

This restful artspace plays different soundtracks based on the next day’s forecast! Scan the QR code for music inspired by the climate & weather, including works by Carl Nielsen, @EverFixedMusic, @dbermel, and Mark Adamo. #ROCOInTheGarden
For more: https://t.co/xCiOOr0DAp

[ROCO @ROCOHouston]

Offering a 360-degree multi-sensory journey, featuring curated playlists of our past performances, #ROCOOnTheGo at @houstonbotanic is a must-visit this summer! 🌺

Each Wed. we'll take you behind the music of a different stop, with first "The Weather Station", by @LinaRoseDib.

[Milieux Institute @Milieux_news]

An audience member asks how to emphasize relationality without emphasizing utility.

@jonathansterne: We should hold onto utility outside of its capitalist meaning: as a ground for care and stewardship. We need to think "utility for what and for whom" #ISEA2020 #MilieuX2020

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@kite_kite_ : This is only one symptom of an "entire world-building logic of colonialism."

Her decolonial perspective on #AI and sensory studies asks that we consider the being of everything that contributes to our tech: the materials, the land, the workers, etc. #MilieuXISEA

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@jonathansterne: the most essential technologies in #AI are nothing new! AI relies principally on massive amounts of data run through 20th century statistical routines. Taking stock of such facts help us more critically represent and understand tech.

#MilieuXISEA #ISEA2020

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Navab: How might #AI better connect with its sensory conditions, and how might we shift our understanding of what "intelligence" is? #MilieuXISEA #ISEA2020

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@kite_kite_ Agency and sentience are themselves shifting—we are constantly in and in relation with the tools of both sensing and art-making.

"I want to be in relation with the computer... to put pressure on the idea of tool" #ISEA2020 #MilieuXISEA

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Dib's work explores ways to connect people with their agency through play and encounter.

In THRESHOLD (2017), a large-scale video installation of the gulf shore responds to the actions of those viewing it, invoking questions of sensuous agency and responsibility. #MilieuXISEA

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@LinaRoseDib: Sensory imagination isn't about being didactic. Instead, it's about drawing attention to how sensing happens within networks and ecologies of relation. #ISEA2020 #MilieuXISEA

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Navab: Artists and "sensory cosmonauts" turn rich concepts to specific conditions of engagement that imply forms of sentience. How do you imagine yourself into different sense-making assemblages? Can you connect people to the sense-making apparatus of something else? #MilieuXISEA

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"I'm not trying to create an entire living system... but rather create work that lures the idea of a living system" -
@LinaRoseDib #MilieuXISEA

[Image: Here and Now by Lina Dib, 2019]

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@LinaRoseDib: Liveliness begets relationships...
"we are not existing in isolated systems." She says her work as an artist speaks to this sense of relationality.

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Navab offers an initial provocation to the panel:

"How can our transformations—material, social or otherwise—best preserve the life of things? And what is life to you, what feels lively?" #MilieuXISEA

[Lina Dib @LinaRoseDib]

Glad to be part of a great panel today

[Milieux Institute @Milieux_news]

The Sensory Cosmologies group—@kite_kite_, @jonathansterne, Navid Navab , Nina Czegledy (@ocad @kmdi) and @LinaRoseDib—is presenting a panel at #ISEA2020!

We'll be live-tweeting as panel discusses sensory problem-solving and attempts to "breathe chaos into order" #MilieuXISEA