An excuse to use a Business Fish sticker

Much of the theory that makes up this studio is based around removing the human from the centre. This involves recognising that everything has its own agency, and that we as humans are operating alongside an almost infinite number of otherĀ things. Our next project involves creating what is effectively a documentary about something: a locale, an item; something that has its own agency yada yada. The problem occurs when we think about documentary or the act of documenting. Aren’t these actions inherently human? The equipment we use, the cameras, the microphones, the computers (and all the hundreds of tiny parts inside each of them); are they not man-made things? How does one go about creating an ontography about something if by doing so we are intrinsically putting a human mark on it? Is the idea of ontology not born of human thinking?

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