Scribble on Screens and by Machines

This chapter explores examples of both ‘deep’ and ‘shallow’ screen scribbles, without intending a positive or negative value judgement on either. Scribble features on screen from the first robots, television, video and digital experiments, both as ‘deep,’ unanswered experiments questioning human consciousness, sensory perception, meaning or understanding, as well as what could be considered more ‘shallow’ entertaining forays, offering answers into what might be meant by the art of play, creativity or imagination. In this chapter, scribble’s contribution to a greater understanding of perception are explored via the phenomena of synaesthesia and flux. It marshals evidence against the notion of a disembodied mind for the ‘spatial orientation’ of human experience, such as ‘on–off, deep-shallow, central-peripheral’ as meaning that ‘traffics in patterns, images, qualities, feelings and eventually concepts and prepositions’. Scribble -in flux on screen and by machines- is one of those meaning patterns.