Evidence, Technology and Uncertainty

Evidence, Technology and Uncertainty

DRHA 2014 University of Greenwich, UK. Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Digital World. Communication Futures: Connecting interdisciplinary design practices in arts/culture, academia and the creative industries (Panel)

Abstract

This functionalization in turn leads to the prevailing mindset that the only relevant world is functionalized world. The major effect of these developments is an overall loss of evidence of space and self altogether. Since all these technical formats are the results of a certain mindset of how to scientifically treat entities in general, we have to recur to their sources if we want to gain a re-understanding of what evidence means. A major consequence of this development has been a loss of real attentiveness due to the prevailing functional way of both seeing and interpreting entities like objects, humans, etc. This functional way became so deeply embedded as an everyday cultural practice that it suggests (and that we misinterpret it) to be the only way to individual freedom and true individual expression. The functional mindset also leads to the misconception that every discipline on its own is capable of creating an understanding of the world. This emphasizes the importance of a multi-perspective view of space and its entities based on the idea to transcend merely scientific or artistic approaches into a more comprehensive and immediate approach and working practice. This can help to re-detect the world and its entities in all the richness and variety they actually have while at the same time transferring new and fruitful knowledge and methodology back to the disciplines. Conceiving wholes instead of fragments as a way to re-detect the world could gain new understanding in the domains of science, humanities, and art and therefore increase their explanatory potentials within their already existing domains.