The Silicon Other

Crafting a Technoecology of Posthuman Performativity

Authors

  • Alessandra Di Pisa Linköpings university
  • Robert Stasinski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/confero.5465

Keywords:

Technoecology, Posthuman Performativity, Artistic research, Artificial Intelligence, Non-human Agency, Generative AI, Digital Art, Human-Biased Thought, Robotics, Alien Aesthetic, Creative Autonomy, Computational Performativity, More-than-human Intelligences, Aesthetic Agency, Collaborative Creativity

Abstract

The text discusses the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, robotics, and art, emphasizing a shift from traditional human-centered approaches to a more integrated, posthuman perspective, arguing for a radical rethinking of the role of the artist as part of a larger, technoecological system where creativity emerges from collaboration between humans, machines, and the environment. 

Author Biographies

Alessandra Di Pisa, Linköpings university

Alessandra Di Pisa (b 1977) is an artist and associate professor in Visual Communication and Design at LiU. She has worked with a wide range of artistic expressions such as video, performance, text, sound art, painting, installations, artist books, AI and robotics. Her early works centered around concepts of identity, as well as explorations of linguistic and visual rhetorical manipulations. Her recent works is made as part of the artist duo DiPisaStasinski (with Robert Stasinski). Their projects are based in dialogical aesthetics, transdisciplinarity and critical artificial intelligence, encompassing a wide range of fields, people, platforms and institutions. In addition to her artistic practice, Alessandra Di Pisa is Head of Division at Malmstens, Linköping University. Previous teaching positions include KTH Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH, School of Architecture, KTH and Berghs School of Communication.

Robert Stasinski

Robert Stasinski (b 1980) has worked as an artist, critic, magazine editor, author, and curator for over twenty years. Currently Editor-in-chief of Konstnären Magazine, previously editor and contributor of several books including Felix Gmelin – The Aging Revolution, (2006), The Synthetic Supernatural, (2011), The Board Room, (2016), Soli Deo Gloria (2017), The Heckscher-Ohlin room (Eds. Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Robert Stasinski, 2018), Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management, (2021). Associate curator of the journal Art, Culture & Entrepreneurship, Linnaeus University. Together with Alessandra Di Pisa, he creates artistic research projects under the moniker DiPisaStasinski.

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2025-08-08

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