This concept is closely related to the notion of (v)ideogrammatic mediation, in which the technical apparatus not only represents but also transforms and co-produces the aesthetic experience.
Machine agency refers to the dynamic and relational configuration in which machines, humans, and natural elements (such as the landscape) co-participate in a process of aesthetic and poetic mediation, setting aside the primacy of humans as the sole active subject. In this context, the machine ceases to be a mere instrument and becomes a co-creator, acting as an agent of inscription, mediation, and expression, with relative autonomy in the construction of meaning.
This agency is characterised by:
- A logic of transduction (cf. Simondon), wherein technical and natural elements mutually influence one another in a continuous process of individuation;
- The machine operating as a counter-dispositive, that is, a system which resists anthropocentric and linear logics of alphabetical inscription (cf. Flusser, Agamben);
- The emergence of a machinic subjectivity, conceived as an aesthetic proposition that challenges the separation between subject and object, human and non-human;
- The integration of algorithmic codes, audiovisual signals, and environmental variables, which the machine interprets and re-inscribes as an expanded form of visual or (v)ideogrammatic poetry.