OVERVIEW

click below for quick access to the project components, otherwise scroll down for a pseudo linear walkthrough of the process

AMPERSAND : THE FOUNDATIONS

AMPERS&ND is a multimedia archival experiment examining the processes and practices underlying the collective synthesis of knowledge and art.

AMPERS&ND represents a living chronicle of the exploration into our ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘ways of making’ in various intellectual and creative disciplines, exemplified through the emphasis on metacognition (thinking about thinking) and metacreativity (creative ways of creating) as lenses of examination.

AMPERS&ND moves between spaces of institutional knowing (through scholarship, empirical research, and critical theory) and embodied creative practice (through interdisciplinary collaboration, multimedia documentation, and aesthetic theory) to illustrate how processes of knowing and making converge, diverge, resonate, and replicate between mediums; an extended exercise in multimodal jazz.

AMPERS&ND was first conceptualized during a storyteller residency at the diverse intelligences summer institute in st. andrews, scotland. this institute brings together interdisciplinary scholars and artists working at the intersections of their fields in the name of pursuing a deeper understanding of knowledge, culture, and meaning formation.

Below you can engage with AMPERS&ND as a work-in-process, examine some of its core foundations and frames of reference (as they relate to the philosophy, economics, sociology, and performance of creative exchange), and learn more about the current and future directions of the project.

¿HOW IS KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIZED &&& WHY DO WE ENGAGE?

¿HOW DOES KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTION TAKE PLACE &&& 

WHAT ARE THE RULES/PARAMETERS OF EXCHANGE?

¿WHAT DO WE OBSERVE &&& EXPERIENCE DURING THESE INTERACTIONS?

 AMPERSAND: EXPLORATIONS

AMPERSAND ONLiNE (working title | work-in-progress). in line with the meta-documentation process exhibited in SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: take one by director william greaves, this exploration focuses on the sociology of artistic process sharing in the age of (filtered, voyeuristic) digital interaction spaces.

COUNTERWORLDS (work-in-progress). inspired by the princeton art &&& archaeology department course entitled Counterworlds: Innovation and Rupture in Communities of Artistic Practice, COUNTERWORLDS is a multimodal project (likely to be translated into a digital zine). the seminar, jointly taught by art historian and curator brigid doherty, and renowned artist josephine meckseper, explored the possibilities and implications of utopic imagination in individual and communal artistic practice. the course featured the work (and accompanying presence in discussion) of several acclaimed artists and curators, including josiah mcelheny, lucy sante, hanne darboven, tourmaline, jenn nkiru, justine kurkland, and many others.

this abstract mind map (originally etched on whiteboard and subsequently digitized) is a reflective/responsive piece to the materials from the counterworlds seminar, demonstrating some of the initial distillations of course discussions, related works, and ideologies from adjacent scholars and artists (including bell hooks and paul laurence dunbar), and their central tie-in to the ethos of the AMPERSAND project.

AMPERSAND : COLLABORATIONS

welcome to the AMPERS&ND COLLABORATION space.

the collaborative element of this project is integral to its core foundation. the underlying exploration of the economics and sociology of collaborative metacognition and creative synthesis started long before this project had a title, and involves continual work — both formal and abstract — in community with innovators, scholars, artists, and phenoms across disciplines, mediums, and geographic/modal borders. below are some examples of selected collaborations (at various stages of development) with some of these brilliant individuals. this page is currently under (ongoing) construction,

stay tuned for more to come.