Uncertainties, Embodied Virtual(s)

The creative processes that interest us are called digital because the algorithm is mobilized in them as the principal tool of creation, but they are not homogeneous in their internal structure. They include non-digital levels, which can be designated as “analog” in the broad sense. This distinction is important, for each level within the creative process harbors forms of uncertainty of a different nature, a conceptualization of which will be proposed below.

The discussion that follows will address the notions of the possible and the virtual in resonance with the way these concepts are inscribed within a certain philosophical framework. Concerning the virtual, it should be made clear that this notion, as it will be problematized here, has in principle no relation to the everyday use of the word in the context of digital technologies¹.

1. As in “virtual reality”, virtual world, virtual character, virtual currency, virtual memory, virtual network, etc.↩︎