Materiathek--issues and queries

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Collection of issues and queries surrounding the topic of materiathek | material archive

comment: there are different possibilities to sort these questions

• depending on each participant
• focus of work
• by main topics like immateriality, phenomenology, practicality, speculation etc

a first list of questions

(Karin)

observations of material (and their definitions or ascriptions)

• what are or can be divergences and confluences between digital and physical material?
  • what is immaterial, digital, invisible, indeterminability etc.?
  • and further on for me, how do we approach fictional and speculative aspects?
  • what are the perceptional aspects of materiality?
  • what are the semantic aspects?
  • how do we combine or relate these?
  • how do we define physicality and all overlapping, intersecting, negating, grazing features to the non-physical?

material in processes, material as processes

• what are the core aspects of artistic processes considering the material aspect?
• can start and end points be made visible/readable/perceptible in any form? are there start and end points?
• what is the "inbetween" of material? are these the processes or different states?

taxonomies

• what are relevant categorizations? what kind of taxonomy is sensible or practical?
  • are descriptions in an archive/collection enough?
  • what kind of digital, tactile, linguistic tools can be combined or are necessary for a diverse approach?

• what kind of observations and experimentations are possible in respect to time, process, change?
• is there a question of time or temporality in general?

aspects of activeness, agency ...

• what are terms of acting, with and within and outside of material aspects?