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Bookmark A disjointed conversation – Claire Bishop, The Digital Divide, and the State…
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 Difficulties’…

January 16 2013, 2:41am | Comments
Bookmark Matthew Fuller » Giffed Economy
Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark Humanism: not an ‘impossible dream’
Andrew Brown, at The Guardian‘s ‘Comment is Free’ (CIF) wrote an article a couple of weeks ago now rubbishing humanism and the British Humanist Association. I’ve responded today on the Huffington…

December 31 2012, 6:57am | Comments
Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark 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Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."
“Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark THE THING: FIGURES IN THE FRAME « MULTIGLOM
THE THING: FIGURES IN THE FRAME « MULTIGLOM

October 21 2012, 3:47am | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
Portfolio Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the ‘Die Hard’ Method

October 7 2012, 3:48pm | Comments
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The ENCODE delusion

September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments
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IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark My response to Claire Bishop’s article “Digital Divide” « MEDIA, NEW MEDIA,…
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 pleasure,…

September 8 2012, 7:01am | Comments
Bookmark Making the Digital Divide Cheap and Nasty. | http://www.furtherfield.org
So ArtForum have launched a special September issue investigating the, lets say broader, relationship between new media, technology and visual art.* Of worthy mention is the essay Digital Divide by the…

September 8 2012, 6:57am | Comments
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Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments
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Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Bookmark Why contemporary art fails to come to grips with digital. A response…
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 art-world’s…

September 4 2012, 5:30am | Comments
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A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)
The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image.…

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments
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August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments
Bookmark Absolutely-Too-Much - The Brooklyn Rail
Contemporary art is an easy thing to hate. All the meaningless hype, the identikit openings in cities that blur into one long, banal, Beck’s beer fuelled anxiety dream from which there…

August 29 2012, 2:19am | Comments
Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog
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 together…

August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…
This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments
Bookmark Digital Curation Resource Guide
Digital curation involves selection and appraisal by creators and archivists; evolving provision of intellectual access; redundant storage; data transformations; and, for some materials, a commitment to long-term preservation. Digital curation is…

August 25 2012, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Foucault - Remarks on Marx
Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994

August 25 2012, 2:43am | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick and the Living Image | this cage is worms
The image infects, burrows, pupates, and emerges like a butterfly from its host. In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick wrote about a non-understandable space entity that did…

August 24 2012, 10:08am | Comments
Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing
In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
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 very…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark 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 it?…

July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments
Bookmark Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments

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