Emma Rae Bruml Norton is an artist, coder and researcher who practices programming, writing, teaching, and complicating answers in step with the following questions: which conditions allowed the optical mouse to emerge? How has its emergence shaped entanglements between humans and computers? What is it exactly that the mouse sees and how does this shape what humans see? Emma’s work can be found in the form of listening at Printed Matter, writing at Real Life Magazine and teaching at the School for Poetic Computation.
“The Computer Mouse Sees is a series of discussions and research performances. Throughout the residency I will publicly study and attempt to locate a history of vision embedded within the computer mouse. The project will use ‘The Mother of All Demos’ as its departure. Most importantly the project will sustain, in its materiality and performativity, a departure from Doug Engelbart’s notion of the user. Ultimately the project and its interlocutors will convene online, at times asynchronously, at times in real time, for the second Computer Mouse Conference, co-organized with Ashley Jane Lewis, to be held in the spring of 2021.”
Channeling Doug Engelbart’s energy, this collective scrolling performance lecture by Resident Artist Emma Rae Bruml Norton explores the computer mouse as an object that connects humans and computers.