Meanings
comparative more technoetic · superlative most technoetic
- Combining technology and consciousness.
The 'Red Lady' in his palaeoecological and technoetic context (chapter title)
2000, Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Paviland Cave and the 'Red Lady': A Definitive Report, page 2272 more examples
So within the telematic embrace we hope to reach this social synchronicity, an identical rhythm of the heart, a dynamic technoetic equilibrium.
1998, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Art @ Science, page 286Amergent music is a generative style developed to complement the innate dynamics or ontology of technoetic environments.
2014, Norbert Herber, “Musical Behavior and Amergence in Technoetic and Media Arts”, in Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio, page 365
Origin
From τέχνη (tékhnē) + νοητικός (noētikós), coined by British artist Roy Ascott in 1997.
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