LANDSCAPES OF DESIGN | gosia k creative take on

In my current activities and experiments in the art field, my concentration is still focused on analysis of "the relations", but within the frame (or seen through the lenses) of: context, contact, content. I tend to call it "socially active art". Interactive design in extended meaning of this words, concentrated not only on the digital interactive media technology. My current activities focuses on experimenting with the possibilities offered by the artistic script on the broad of social context. Beyond the artists "ego", beyond the classic dialogue taking place between the artist and the material_medium. For me the role of the artist_creator and work_material is as important as its audience_viewer_participants, where the artifact is in the process and not an end result.

"Design is how we can be dominated by instrumental rationality and love it, too. (Liu 2004: 236)[…]Design has increasingly therefore become interaction design: the design of commodities that behave, communicate, or inform, if even in the most marginal way, in part by making them into processes of variation and difference that can allow for the unforeseen activities that they may become involved in or used for which they may then act as clues to further incarnations. In other words, ‘the success of a design is arrived at socially’ (McCullough 2004: 167), that is through structured processes of cultural deliberation which massage form."
Nigel Thrift, non-represententional theory

"However, how do you participate in something - an action or process- when your body is already there, long before you answer 'yes' on 'no'? The more interesting art practices today may bring us closer to this paradox: to mobilise yourself as an extension of the other- where me and you are continuously replaced by a larger and external contact area. What can we do but live outside of ourselves?

Ricardo Basbaum