[Thesis] A Critical Theory of Web Culture in 4chan’s /b/ Mediascape
This post contains the abstract and download link to a thesis project which examines the infamous online forum 4chan and its most notorious image board, known as /b/.
Free For $8
The New Museum of Art in New York City is currently hosting an exhibition carrying work from 23 artists titled “Free”. The show explores: “how the internet has fundamentally changed our landscape of information and our notion of public...
Fellow Sorcerers: Rhizomatic Animality in New Media Art
Here’s my thesis, relevant for any fan of cyborg studies: Fellow Sorcerers PDF Abstract Beginning in the industrial revolution and possibly before, the balance of animal life has tipped away from a state of autonomy to a state of...
How Can Artists Use Social Networks?
Artists and the Ontological Web “As an artist I find that social networking technology is ontological.” -Andres Manniste on Nettime, March 2008. As we use the web we construct a portrait of ourselves over time: what sites we return to,...
Chasing Away Ghosts: a Review of Brian Rotman’s Becoming Beside Ourselves
Q: “In the Far North, where there is snow, all bears are white. New Land is in the Far North and there is always snow there. What color are the bears there?” A: “I don’t know; I’ve seen a...
Digital Music Becomes (more) Rhizomatic
Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture
1. Contemporary media are characterized by a stammering stream of an ever growing schizophrenic ‘logic of addition’. 2. ‘Old’ mass media like television and cinema are not dead but undead. 3. Schizophrenia points to clinical and critical symptoms of...
Alex Galloway on Protocol @ UvA
After the talk Alex Galloway gave on The Game of War Rosie asked him to give us an introduction to Protocol, which is key literature for one of our courses. This is the first spontaneously organized event by Geeks...
“44422435 to nowhere”
In response to last weeks admittance of their work “44422435 to nowhere” to the Rhizome ArtBase, Entter told me that finally it seems “we are artists and not fucking nerd losers”. Since 2002, Entter’s fields of research and development...