[O.A.D.C.A.M.Q]

The goal of this project is to grow a sympoietic art organism. To cultivate an art ecosystem by drawing from and enriching shared artistic commons. To showcase art that mixes media and visions, that brings out the analog from digital, and digitizes the analog.

By sympoietic art organism, we mean an artwork (or more precisely, an ongoing artistic process) that is poetic, conceptual, and ecological in nature. It is:

• Co-created (not made by a single author),
• Open-ended and adaptive (always becoming),
• Responsive to its environment (not closed off from change),
• Distributed in agency (not centered on human control), and
• Relational (interdependent with other systems, beings, or forces).

The word “sympoietic” comes from sympoiesis, coined by systems theorists and developed by Donna Haraway, meaning “making-with” rather than autopoiesis, which is self-making. Sympoiesis is collective, dynamic, and contingent.

The following manifesto is assembled from contributions from each founding member of the sympoietic art collective. It will be its own record of our meta-artistic intent, and art object. It will be available as part of the artistic commons we are growing.

[Organic][Autocatalytic][Disruptive][Collective] [Anarchist][Magical][Quilting]:

A manifesto for the co-creation of a sympoietic art organism.