Kimospheres, or Shamans in the Blind Country

Johannes Birringer

Abstract


In this essay I shall look forward to current work, the metakimospheres as we call our installations, not without placing what already in 2005 we began to think of as “sensual technologies” into a context of art/technology, dance/technology and new media art—the cross-over performance and science assemblages that are of interest here if we consider the technological arts as an important medium for contemporary knowledge production and also political intervention.


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