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Emergent properties – intra-acting with algorithms (last edited: 2025)

Marco Döttlinger
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The artistic research project ‚Emergent properties – intra-acting with algorithms‘ aims to map structural features of the contemporary digital apparatus to the domain of experimental electro-acoustic music composition and improvisation. In an iterative performance and live-coding practice, generative and machine learning algorithms are explored and exploited. The main hypothesis is that emergent properties occur in and through human-machine intra-actions. Human and Nonhuman actors – computational processes, or algorithmic agents – gain an emergent agency in the process: algorithms are not just tools that are (artistically) used by human subjects to solve some problems and accomplish certain tasks. Their usage, design, misuse or misappropriation is understood as artistic decision-making and leads to unpredictable and surprising sonic artifacts. An important research direction is the question of how intra-action of humans and algorithms infects this assemblage at diverse layers. Further, it raises questions about the ontology of electro-acoustic music, about authorship and the agency of human creators.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsMedia Arts, Experimental music, Sound Art, composition, computer music, machine learning, improvisation, Human-machine-Interaction, speculative materialism
date11/12/2025
last modified14/12/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationArtistic Research Center (ARC), mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
copyrightmarco doettlinger
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4058797/4058977
external linkdoettlinger.org


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