DescriptionEbon Fisher's Ecosocial Confluxes and Media Organisms, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1988-1998.jpg
English: These are diagrams of ecosocial systems that Ebon Fisher cultivated in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1990s with his systems theater company, Nerve Circle. These “media organisms” as Fisher called them, were just a few of the media sharing rituals Fisher cultivated in Williamsburg at that time. Other systems included The Weird Thing Zone, The Slurm, Endless Tissue and Heat-Seeking Psycho-Suctions. Fisher was one of the leading figures in the Brooklyn Immersionist arts movement in Williamsburg that catalyzed a renaissance throughout the borough of Brooklyn. Fisher's diagrams of ecosocial gatherings led to his Zoacodes which map out network ethics systems.
The biomorphic nature of the conflux diagrams – and later the Zoacodes – was intended to appeal to living recipients of the forms and contribute to an extended biological system that moves from street to media to minds and back again. Much of this interdisciplinary work was informed by Fisher’s holistic Quaker culture which valued opening one’s mind to both nature and community, and the research and teaching he did on emergent information systems at MIT’s Media Lab at its inception in the 1980s. Although they have entered museums and art history books, Nerve Circle’s confluxes and media rituals lend themselves to a post-art, and post-Anthropocene culture of vital systems cultivation.
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