Mind and Matter : Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity

The terms "mind" and "matter" appear to signify two irreplaceable and permanent concepts in nature. The increasing challenges and modes of reflection of digital life and cultural creation have contributed to a productive doubting of said dichotomy. Net culture has exposed the causality of the two only superficially contradictory systems and translated these into new technological realities. This publication, using an interdisciplinary approach, strives to investigate the entanglement of cultural, artistic, and technical praxis to document the developments, clarify the status quo of the scientific community in a practical and exemplary fashion, and enable glimpses of potential future developments.