ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 explores the implications of immersive cartography for engaging a more-than-human aesthetics, focusing on the specific role of artistic composition in developing a participatory ecology of inquiry. This involves an extended discussion of Deleuze and Guattari’s engagement with art as the expression of animality, focusing on the compositional agency of percepts and affects in multi-species processes of “creative involution”. Examples of collaborative artworks created by student participants in the States and Territories project help open this discussion into a molecular account of creative ontogenesis, emphasising the more-than-human qualities and relations that participate in the process of “becoming a work of art”.
