Neuralpoiesis

(Noun)

ˈnu̇r-əl - pȯi-ˈē-səs

An embodied, algorithmic framework designed to evoke emotional connection through the generation of memory sensation visualizations using neural radiance fields (NeRFs).

Inspired by Maturana and Varela's Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (1980), Edith Stein’s concept of non-actuality (1917), and Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic subjects (1994), the term neuralpoiesis describes visual artifacts generated through technological rituals of becoming.

Emphasizing the nature of memory as a fusion of past sensations and present encounters while highlighting the transformative potential of embodied, algorithmic processes, neuralpoiesis positions 3D scanning as a posthuman feminist approach to producing non-actual memories and emotional connection using a technologically mediated, embodied visual practice.

Algorithmic Memory Ritual

Structured, repetitive processes mediated by advanced algorithms, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), that enable individuals to capture, reconstruct, and re-experience embodied memory sensations. These rituals, performed through intentional actions like walking and digital scanning, allow displaced individuals to reorient themselves in the present by creating non-actual, sensory memories mediated through technology. The framework offers an embodied, transversal approach to coping through a novel synthesis of technology, memory, phenomenology, and feminist theory:

  1. Algorithmic processes (NeRFs)

  2. Ritual as intentional, repetitive action mediated by technology (3D scanning)

  3. Embodied memory and non-actuality

  4. A Framework/practice that is rooted in Posthuman feminist theory and Steinian phenomenology

  5. Reorientation and emotional coping for displaced individuals