{"id":721,"date":"2025-05-31T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/?page_id=721"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:55:53","slug":"proposed-definition-of-machine-brokerage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/index.php\/proposed-definition-of-machine-brokerage\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Definition of Machinic Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:138px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"652\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-746\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-05-31-as-11.34.42-1-edited.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-05-31-as-11.34.42-1-edited.png 870w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-05-31-as-11.34.42-1-edited-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Captura-de-ecra-2025-05-31-as-11.34.42-1-edited-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69e22155263cc&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69e22155263cc\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"532\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-id=\"736\" 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Simondon), wherein technical and natural elements mutually influence one another in a continuous process of individuation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The machine operating as a <strong>counter-dispositive<\/strong>, that is, a system which resists anthropocentric and linear logics of alphabetical inscription (cf. Flusser, Agamben);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The emergence of a <strong>machinic subjectivity<\/strong>, conceived as an aesthetic proposition that challenges the separation between subject and object, human and non-human;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video<\/strong>: [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/site\/videos\/hibrido\/CMpedreira01.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a><\/strong>] [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vwmproject.pt\/site\/videos\/report\/teaserCorte.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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