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Review on Stephen Baker’s The Numerati

Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, published in 2008, tells the story of our modern world’s “binarization;” how every individual is deduced to ones and zeroes through the trails of data we leave behind which are consequently gathered, analyzed and categorized...
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 09/18/11 2

Who’s stalking you on Facebook?

On the mythical algorithm that determines the selection of the 6 friends in your personal Facebook page. For a while now I’ve noticed that two of my Facebook friends were always being listed in my personal page. Now, I...
By Emina Sendijarevic on 09/12/10 4

Democracy of the Algorithm

Working on the Society of the Query conference, I often find myself confronted with an unquestioned believe in what are believed to be the empowering or even emancipating qualities of universally accessible open and free information. Michael Stevenson once...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 11/03/09 2
Event: Now is the Time, Media. Digital Elements In Analogue Artworks.

Event: Now is the Time, Media. Digital Elements In Analogue Artworks.

What is the status of the medium in art production and the discourse in art, in this situation referred to by Rosalind Kraus as the ‘postmedium condition’? How can an artist act critically in this complex cultural field now...
By saskia korsten on 10/06/08 0