[NetBehaviour] Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, Architecture, & Music

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of 
Participatory Art, Architecture, & Music

The editors of this book project were drawn together by a common outlook 
that the creation of work is the creation of concepts, joining the 
efforts of theory and praxis in one process (techné), and that the 
results of our works are the expression of an ontological proposition 
(worldmaking). This connection was the catalyst to host the panel 
discussion, The Volatility and Stability of Worldmaking as Techné, at 
the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts conference 2011 (ISEA 2011). Along 
with invited panelists, Roy Ascott, Jerome Decock, and Marcos Novak, the 
panel presented a wide range of perspectives on the topic that covered 
theory and practice in the areas of art, architecture, and music. While 
well received the discussion was all too short and only scratched the 
surface. Thus the inspiration to launch this book project comes from a 
desire to further explore Worldmaking as Techné in participatory works.

The book, Worldmaking as Techné: Exploring Worlds of Participatory Art, 
Architecture, and Music will focus  on the involvement of the techné of 
worldmaking in participatory art practice. Such practice can be found in 
all areas of art, however, under scrutiny for this particular book are: 
interactive, generative, and prosthetic art, architecture, and music 
practices that depend for their vitality and development on the 
participation of their observers. The book editors are seeking 
contributions that will challenge the level of involvement and 
integration of the observer within the generative praxis in a 
technoscientific agenda. In this spirit, contributions that cover 
philosophical, theoretical, and practice-based research are all welcome.

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