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 number crunchers, better known as data miners, in order to predict behavior. The…
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 can assure you that they are so-called pseudofriends of mine and I hardly post anything on their walls, so why are…
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 referred to this believe as Information Determinism, as if information by itself will solve social and political issues. Realizing…
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 dominated by multimedia and mass media?
Kaja Silverman and Laura Marks talk about the digital in analogue works of art by Leonardo da Vinci and in Islamic tiles and carpets.