ARTISTIC DISPOSITIVES. Social Machines, Soft-Technologies & ContemporaryArt Practices

Abstract

Nowadays, it is necesary to visualize and affect some complex structures that shapesociety. Through history, art has showed its capacity to represent realities that are difficultto perceive. In many forums, art agents discuss the adecuacy of contemporary art to have adirect effect on its context apart from its common performativity through representation. Thistext explains how art tries to understand, show and interact with social machines. For that, thisresearch deeps into soft-technologies, which are mostly related to social sciences: codes ofbehaviour, educational methodologies, ways of communication, models of work-organization,timetables... Its aim is helping to visualize soft-technologies that can be used by contemporaryart to influence social machineries.