a new title

so after much deliberation, and some insightful feedback, the thematic context of my phd project, and its title, have been updated. the change in title is a necessary outcome of the refined theme but i'm a little sad to see chaos calls be replaced. it will no doubt rear its head at a later juncture.

here's an abstract for the newly articulated project, 

system synthesis: 

the ambiguous zone of the nature/culture divide 

An exploration of the nature/culture divide through an analysis of the relationship between these two highly fluid and overlapping categories. With particular focus on the way in which the use of technology filters and mediates this relationship, a set of propositional objects and installations are created from assemblages of materials that straddle the ambiguous zone of this arbitrary divide. It is the problematising of the theoretical nature/culture divide, particularly through the interrelationship of networks and systems that spans both categories, that offers us a field of inspiration from which to harvest ideas and a prism through which to examine the swirling pool of our collective understanding.