Adendorff, Adéle2025-07-082025-07-082025-092025-07*S2025http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103219https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.29492612.v1Thesis (PhD (Digital Culture and Media))--University of Pretoria, 2025.Digital Re-Mediation in Contemporary Sculpture Praxis: Human-Technology Co-Creation," presents a hermeneutic interpretation of the praxes of traditionally trained sculptors now working in a postdigital (analogue-digital) reality. It examines digital technology’s mediating role to show how the infolding of digitised bodies and embodied technologies form a co-creating nonlinear affective intra-action between the sculptor, digital device, and material. In this re-mediated hybrid reality, sculptor-digital technology relations respectively characterise a postdigital reassemblage defined by the notion of agentic matter constituting a performative sense of becoming-with the digital. Postphenomenology and New Materialism are used to theorise digital fabrication technology’s multistable conditions of use and interpret sculptors’ intentions and materially situated relationality with the device. The study shows sculptors’ embodied interactions occur through, with, alongside, and towards digital technologies, and the neomaterial aesthetic arising from this agentic entangled system of physical and non-tangible matter reterritorialises contemporary sculpture within the digital paradigm.en© 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.UCTDSculptureDigital re-mediationEmbodimentNeomaterial aestheticPostdigital reassemblageThesisu2079164110.25403/UPresearchdata.29492612