Antydyscyplinarność po Drugiej Stronie Lustra. Echa klasowości w artystycznych praktykach badawczych na przykładzie analizy wybranych projektów realizowanych w MediaLab przy MIT

Abstract

This article aims to show and deconstruct unintentional and often unaware, but still present in western social art practice the heritage of colonial and class thinking. Through studies of several projects developed at the MIT’s Media Lab under the supervision of Chris Csikszentmihályi, my intention is to point flaws arisen from too little care consideration about subject matter in discussed endeavors. These works are evaluated in the way to imply that there had been insufficient number of factors taken into consideration during the conceptual stage of the development of each project, which as a consequence made them likely to be accused of patronizing attitude. Central for the article is the notion of shortsightedness towards the target group and/or research sample overwhelmed by a final technological and theoretical execution/manifestation, and a ratio between these two.