Jacquelene Drinkall

 

 

 

 

 

 

All that is Solid: Aesthetics of Quantum Telekinetics and Telepathic Smart Dust

Deleuze’s molecular aesthetics posits that art is about the capturing of forces. Both art and performance events capture movement forces that are naked to the visible eye to create affective and telepathic movement in shared aesthesis. Contemporary artists Gianni Motti, Marina Abramovic and Usman Haque work with performance, crowd-sourced telepathy and media assisted remote-control telekinetics and telematics. Meanwhile, Lisa Blackman’s Immaterial Bodies recently reasserts the telepathic foundations of affective experience/aesthesis, aesthetics, and contemporary affect theory.Drawing upon Gabriel Tarde, Maurizio Lazzaroto, Tiziana Terranova, Franco (Bifo) Berardi and Warren Neidich, it is possible to assert that telepathy as part of social, cognitive and infosphere theory is inseparable from contemporary noospheric data forces, contagion, computer dust, extended mind and its inter-cerebral binding to form crowds, data clouds and coral reef city/infosphere structures. Through my collaborative work with artist/theorist and cognitive scientist Warren Neidich I/we introduce emerging speculative theories of how telepathy might occur as part of what cognitive science refers to as Neuronal Recycling Hypothesis. This is undertaken parallel to Luciana Parisi’s concepts of ‘soft thought’, feeling numbers, and data prehension of the algorithmic extended mind. Also relevant is Jennifer Gabry’s observations of the contemporary cloud drift of telepathic smart dust, endlessly shifting RFID pollution and data pollen in her text Telepathically Urban. Once we learn to recognise the molecular forces active in specific modes of art, culture and society, it becomes possible to draw a link between this and a more overt aesthetics of contagion and telepathic data forces. Artistic and aesthetic work occurs within a wider field of metaphysical and scientific research that has been referred to as the “Second Quantum Revolution”. This revolution sees neurological binding in quantum neurodynamics aligned with, and yet displacing, Immanuel Kant’s transcendental conditioning. It is impossible to ignore the consequences this new understanding necessarily holds for art and aesthetics.

Jacquelene Drinkall is an interdisciplinary artist, theorist from the Sydney area. Jacque’s practice engages with art materials, immaterials, performance, concepts and mediums to explore telepathy of body-mind-world. Jacque’s theory researches telepathy of affect, extended cognition, dialectical materialism, speculative ecologies, transpersonal art histories and telekinetic aesthetics. She holds Honours 1 (University Medal) and Masters by Research in Visual Art (Painting) from Australian National University (ANU), and PhD in Art History and Theory from College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (COFA UNSW). Jacque has lectured in art, theory and interactive media design at ANU, University of Sydney, James Cook University and COFA UNSW. Continuing her work as Honorary Researcher, Jacque received Developing and Recognising Talent (DART) sponsorship from Gosford City Council and Pozible Crowdfunding for this conference.