‘It’s on the tip of my Google’: Intra-active performance and the non-totalising learning environment

Snake-Beings, Emit

‘It’s on the tip of my Google’: Intra-active performance and the non-totalising learning environment

dc.contributor.author	Snake-Beings, Emit	en_NZ
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-21T01:56:16Z
dc.date.available	2017	en_NZ
dc.date.available	2017-04-21T01:56:16Z
dc.date.issued	2017	en_NZ
dc.description.abstract	Technologies that expand the learning environment to include interactions outside of the physical space of the classroom, such as the use of Google as an aid to memory, represent one aspect of learning that occurs within several seemingly decentralised spaces. On the other hand, it can be argued that such interactive technologies are enclosed in what Bruno Latour calls a ‘Black-box’: a ‘totalising’ enclosure that delimits interaction and channels users towards yet another form of centralised learning space. Used as a starting point, the focus of this article rapidly shifts from the constraints of the ‘Black-box’ towards a type of engagement that embraces material agency: an engagement with materials and fragments of knowledge that emerge from the ‘non-totalising’ assemblage. To assist in this trajectory, Karen Barad’s concept of intra-activity is employed, where agency is seen as distributed between human and non-human actants. The space in which this engagement between human and materials occurs, as a non-totalising learning space, is the concern of this article, which uses an interactive audio/visual performance event called Bingodisiac as a case study to examine various ways in which we can learn to move beyond the constraints of totalising structures. Bingodisiac is a project initiated by the researcher in 2002, as an informal collection of musicians who are assembled for a one-off improvised performance. This article draws upon interviews and journal notes collected at the time of the performances to explore the analogy of ‘noise music’ and how this can be related to ways in which the learning space of the classroom and the types of knowledge produced have become decentralised.	en_NZ
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Snake-Beings, E. (2017). ‘It’s on the tip of my Google’: Intra-active performance and the non-totalising learning environment. E-Learning and Digital Media, published online February 17, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/2042753017692429	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/2042753017692429	en_NZ
dc.identifier.eissn	2042-7530	en_NZ
dc.identifier.issn	2042-7530	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11008
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Sage	en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOf	E-Learning and Digital Media	en_NZ
dc.rights	This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: E-Learning and Digital Media. © 2017 Sage.
dc.subject	Assemblage, decentralised learning environment, interactive performance, noise music, non-totalising, sound culture	en_NZ
dc.subject	Assemblage
dc.subject	decentralised learning environment
dc.subject	interactive performance
dc.subject	interactive performance
dc.subject	non-totalising
dc.subject	sound culture
dc.title	‘It’s on the tip of my Google’: Intra-active performance and the non-totalising learning environment	en_NZ
dc.type	Journal Article
pubs.begin-page	1
pubs.elements-id	193319
pubs.end-page	14
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS/School of Arts
pubs.organisational-group	/Waikato/FASS/School of Arts/Screen and Media Studies
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_NZ
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