Molding the Signifier: Codesculpting the Possible Shapes of a Future Consciousness

Abstract

Abstract This article introduces the art/science/transmedia project Molding the Signifier and maps out its wider cultural and societal connotations, reach and significance, with specific reference to its staging within the Trust Me, I’m an Artist event (an EU Creative Europe-funded project) that took place in Prague in 2015. As the work itself strives to artistically bridge and synthesize recent—in the opinion of the authoring artist group—existentially highly relevant results in science, so the article provides an overview and synthesis of their art/science fusion approach and methods.