Mel as Hyperobject

Abstract

Through the words of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013), the adapted practice of distant reading, the lens of current neuroscience, and the flavor of non-philosophy, artist Mel Keiser transmutes a text about object oriented ontology and ecological philosophy into a piece that describes what it is to be an identity becoming.

Keywords

• practice-as-research
• arts-based research
• visual art
• identity
• systems theory
• distant reading
• ficto-criticism
• studio practice
• doing/thinking
• non-philosophy
• becoming
• experimental literature