Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. In this commentary, I raise one question and one critical comment about Rietveld’s normative claim that ‘artistic practices afford embedding technologies better in society’ (2019, p. 5). In what exact sense is this th…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. The ability to change one’s behaviour based on past experience has obvious fitness benefits. Drawing from past experience requires some kind of information storage and retrieval. The acellular slime mould Physarum pol…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. This short note addresses the question whether Rietveld’s account of visual arts and adaptive behaviour be extended to literature.
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. The response asks about the relationship between artist and audience in the RAAAF artworks. Is the artist an Autonomous Innovator who breaches the ties with the past and the environment? Or is the aesthetic practice l…
Adaptive Behavior, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 103-117, April 2022. In recent decades, several theories have claimed to explain the teleological causality of organisms as a function of self-organising and self-producing processes. The most widely cited th…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Starting from the understanding of architecture as an existential art, this commentary highlights the relevance of Rietveld’s view on the affordances of art for making technologies in two ways: (a) first, by discussin…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. This contribution takes as point of departure the particular response-ability allowed by the contemporary choreographic performance works of settler (Canadian) visual artist Karen Ginger Guttman, in which the visitor-…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Rietveld discusses three skills that artistic practices have to offer to makers of technologies for embedding such technologies in society. An ecological dynamics model of skill learning empowers the embedding of Riet…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Upon starting a collective endeavour, it is important to understand your partners’ preferences and how strongly they commit to a common goal. Establishing a prior commitment or agreement in terms of posterior benefits…
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print. Responding to Erik Rietveld’s inaugural lecture, this commentary asks which bodies and what sites of design and architecture are centralized when thinking about “The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies”? Depart…