SHORT PAPER. Technoshamanism combines traditional shamanic technologies with emerging technologies based in silicon (dry), biology (wet) and hybrid (moist), in the service of healing and sustaining life. This paper explores how contemporary artists pursue expanded forms of consciousness by symbiotically joining technoscientific tools and shamanic techniques.
SHORT PAPER. With the aim of reconsidering the very nature of architecture, we propose a conceptual tool to think of architectural apparatuses as actors within a continuum composed of both artificial and natural agents. For this,we look at the cognitive sciences, particularly the 4E cognitive (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended). We use examples from contemporary architecture to test...