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Writing Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito Steyerl

The highly compressed, deteriorated ‘poor image mocks the promises of digital technology. Not only is it often degraded to the point of being just a hurried blur, one even doubts whether it could be called an image at all.’ The aesthetic affect of digital…

May 21 2013, 2:58am | Comments

Furtherfield Contributions The Impulse of the Geocities Archive: One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age

May 17 2013, 3:16am | Comments

Rhizome Contributions Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke at Rhizome.org

March 30 2013, 3:12pm | Comments

Link SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists…

SPIEGEL: Mr. Eco, you are considered one of the world's great scholars, and now you are opening an exhibition at the Louvre, one of the world's most important museums.

March 19 2013, 4:08pm | Comments

Link Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people. High…

January 22 2013, 5:16am | Comments

Link A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital…

I found Claire Bishop’s landmark essay on Digital Art, ‘The Digital Divide’ in Artforum’s 50th Anniversary issue three months late through Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour’s equally polemic response, ‘Technical…

January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments

Link artforum.com / in print

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going…

January 14 2013, 5:29pm | Comments

Link GIFABILITY

Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the…

November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments

Twitter Links On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza

In the hot lava of social media flows the critical distance between performing and being a ‘somebody’, a subject type, seems to collapse, along…

November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments

Twitter Links Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a…

November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments

GLTI.CH Karaoke GLTI.CH Featured on DRadio Wissen

As originally featured on the DRadio Wissen site (here is a terrible Google translation for your pleasure): Never were beautiful mistake An error in the digital image processing in a computer game in the transmission of live streams – which can be very annoying. Glitching…

September 11 2012, 3:04pm | Comments

Link My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide”…

This is my response to Claire Bishop‘s essay “Digital Divide“, published in Artforum in September 2012 (also posted in the comments section of the article): Reading this article was a…

September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments

Twitter Links the gift, the artist, and the net

So when I say the internet is a gift economy, I don’t just mean that many of us read and watch and write and…

September 8 2012, 6:03am | Comments

Link digital divide: contemporary art and new media -…

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DIGITAL ART? Cast your mind back to the late 1990s, when we got our first e-mail accounts. Wasn’t there a pervasive sense that visual art was going…

September 4 2012, 6:17am | Comments

Link Why contemporary art fails to come to grips…

This month, Art Forum published a very timely, and beautifully written essay by Claire Bishop entitled, Digital Divide: on contemporary Art and New Media“. In it, Bishop analyses the contemporary…

September 4 2012, 5:30am | Comments

Link Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot…

The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster…

August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments

Link The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of…

In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

Link DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION

To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments

Link War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise…

A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments

Link "Don't Gaze Me, Bro" : curation, gender, and…

Everyone seems to be talking about the New Aesthetic lately. Have you seen it? It might possibly have shattered records of attention credits/takes in its opening weekend. In its tumblr…

May 30 2012, 1:56am | Comments

Link Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in…

To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs…

May 23 2012, 9:46am | Comments

Link Are there "fakes" in digital art?

The History of Art is filled with forgeries, but are there fakes in digital art fields made from creative cut-and-pastes, collaborative works and infinite works? We approached four people who,…

May 23 2012, 9:37am | Comments

Link In the Digital Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation

Publication used to mean preservation but it no longer does. Let me explain. When a print book is published its metadata is literally attached to its content. The author and…

May 21 2012, 10:46am | Comments

Link The idea of following in the age of…

With regard to the relativity of value, Karl Marx expressed this function of ideology in the clearest terms in Volume I of Capital: "... one man is king only because…

May 21 2012, 10:39am | Comments

Link Reflecting the Past: Technology brings the ghosts of…

"We're trying to work out whether places have memories and if so, how can we help people relate to these memories," says Tim Cole, a lecturer in History at the…

May 4 2012, 4:47am | Comments

Link Jonathan Lethem on our rapidly dematerializing culture

The Ecstasy of Influence, now the title of his recent collection of writings, often addresses the process of integrating and "cobbling together" ideas and culture to make something new. Yet,…

April 26 2012, 12:43pm | Comments

Link What Is the "New Aesthetic"?

The New Aesthetic is now subject to discussion and critique on a number of forums, blogs, twitter threads, and so forth (for a list, see bibliography on Berry 2012a, but…

April 19 2012, 1:21am | Comments

Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or… If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments

Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection… Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of…

February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

Twitter Links Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable

This music -- which sounds like a moody piano soundtrack for a existentialist movie about a rainy day -- is made by slicing a…

January 19 2012, 7:54am | Comments

Twitter Links The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self

To many, the internet holds great promises of freedom, wealth, power, and opportunity. One great example of this is the dot com bubble. When…

December 18 2011, 3:51am | Comments

GLTI.CH Karaoke Gli.tc/h Amsterdam Retrospective

Clips and noises courtesy of Anthony Antonellis – See you all in Birmingham, Saturday 19th from 3pm!

November 17 2011, 1:58am | Comments

Link The Constraint Histories of Digital Games

Attempts to provide a taxonomy of game genres founder on the lack of consistent criteria, and usually have to be arbitrarily assigned. Connecting ‘shooters’ into a lineage suggests scrolling shooters…

October 19 2011, 3:25am | Comments

Link “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and…

For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments

Link Is New Media Accepted in the Art World?…

Do institutions and galleries have a growing interest in New Media? Two weeks ago, I identified the art “internet bubble” at The L Magazine, a trend that’s currently giving new…

September 2 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

Link Digital tendencies

From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a…

August 12 2011, 4:59am | Comments

Link Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to…

Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments

Twitter Links Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling

"Entropy requires no maintenance. Entropy has its own poetry."

August 10 2011, 9:59am | Comments

Link Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or…

There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

Link #Don't Follow Twitter Art

Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of…

July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

Link Knowledge, not the way you knew it

17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an…

June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

Link Cory Arcangel Goes Old School

Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments

Link A Medium for the Masses

The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

Link Is Twitter writing, or is it speech? Why…

Which begs the question: What is Twitter, actually? (No, seriously!) And what type of communication is it, finally? If we’re wondering why heated debates about Twitter’s effect on information/politics/us tend…

June 2 2011, 1:19pm | Comments

Link Technology Provides an Alternative to Love

Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to…

May 30 2011, 2:03am | Comments

Link The glorious GIF renaissance

GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments

Link The Art of the Accident : Institute for…

Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it…

May 15 2011, 6:04am | Comments

Link Technology Of Writing

Technology of/on/about writing: A huge list of resources

May 11 2011, 11:03am | Comments

Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

Link Digital legacy: Archaeology of the future

The historians of 2061 will want to study the birth of the world wide web. How on earth will they know where to start? Today, historians have to piece together…

May 3 2011, 3:12am | Comments

Link Analogue artists defying the digital age

Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal…

April 24 2011, 6:39am | Comments

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