Techno / natural interfacing: walking and mapping in the age of climate change.

Abstract

The techno / natural interface examines a series of World-Wide-Walks projects from the 1970s to the present. The inquiry extends our work on The Techno / Cultural Interface: tracking the boundaries of high-tech and traditional cultures presented at TISEA, Sydney, 1992, and published in Media Information Australia, August, 1993. Originally inspired by Gregory Bateson's 'dialogues' and 'metalogues', concepts of mind and nature as 'sacred and necessary unities,' the techno / cultural ideas evolve from theories of interfacing, identities, and consciousness to techno / natural concepts examined through the sensuous kinesthetic experience of walking and its mapping.