Redefining the Fold

How may abstraction and creativity be redefined, when drawing operates as a 'fold' across matter, information and space? The study of chaos has been raising numerous questions about statistics, geometry, topology, nonlinearity and emergence, necessitating not only their investigation through phase space but also the redefinition of the latter in the contemporary metaconditions of science. Paradoxes and 'missing links' between numbers and visualisation offer a new 'space' for advancing science, technology, philosophy and creative practice beyond existing boundaries. As part of contemporary post-causal physics, the metatopology of paths-between-paths inspires new types of tracing, diagramming and drawing. Where 'tropography' meets topography, operative tracing may extend to a kind of post-indexical spatialisation of 'incommensurables' and 'intermediates.' Novel processes of drawing may thus reveal the metaspaces of 'disprogramming.' Paving the way towards the philosophy of drawing in the metaconditions of 'perplication' across contemporary thinking, creative practice, science and technology, signifies the mutual redefinition of drawing, research and practice through new becomings.