Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production

In this thesis, I make a case for challenging categorical thinking and draw upon non-human perspectives as a starting point to propose a pre-linguistic root to categorization by situating the concept of categorization into a sensory paradigm. Later I highlight a selection of 3 artistic projects that look at human-non-human relationships, sensory augmentation, and bacterial consent to question methodologies of inquiry in relating beyond the human category. In conclusion I present my thesis exhibition, Poetics of Inquiry, as a meditation on subjectivity to explore how artistic research can offer an entry point into thinking beyond categorization. This thesis also attempts to situate my practice within a limited base of references as a contribution towards the vast discourse by fellow knowledge producers within the field of Art, Culture, and Technology.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Ishraki, Kazi

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Akšamija, Azra

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151247

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/151247