Postdigital Aesthetics

338 Pages·2015·2.52 MB·English

Postdigital Aesthetics
Art, Computation and Design
Edited by
David M. Berry
Michael Dieter
Postdigital Aesthetics
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Postdigital Aesthetics
Art, Computation and Design
Editedby
David M. Berry
UniversityofSussex,UK
Michael Dieter
UniversityofWarwick,UK
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgements xi
NotesonContributors xiii
1 ThinkingPostdigitalAesthetics:Art,Computation
andDesign 1
DavidM.BerryandMichaelDieter
2 WhatIs‘Post-digital’? 12
FlorianCramer
3 GenealogiesoftheNewAesthetic 27
ChristianePaulandMalcolmLevy
4 ThePostdigitalConstellation 44
DavidM.Berry
5 CommunicationModels,AestheticsandOntologyofthe
ComputationalAgeRevealed 58
LukaszMirocha
6 HowtoBeTheorized:ATediouslyAcademicEssayonthe
NewAesthetic 72
KatjaKwastek
7 AHyperbolicandCatchyNewAesthetic 86
DanielPinkas
8 TheGeniusandtheAlgorithm:ReflectionsontheNew
AestheticasaComputer’sVision 96
StamatiaPortanova
9 Selfiecity:ExploringPhotographyandSelf-FashioninginSocial
Media 109
AliseTifentaleandLevManovich
10 JudgingLikeaMachine 123
DavidGolumbia
11 NotNow?Feminism,Technology,Postdigital 136
CarolineBassett
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12 PostscriptonthePost-digitalandtheProblemofTemporality 151
GeoffCox
13 DarkPatterns:InterfaceDesign,AugmentationandCrisis 163
MichaelDieter
14 DataVisualizationandtheSubjectofPoliticalAesthetics 179
SeanCubitt
15 SchoolWillNeverEnd:OnInfantilizationinDigital
Environments–AmplifyingEmpowermentorPropagating
Stupidity? 191
MercedesBunz
16 TheCityandtheCity:London2012Visual(Un)Commons 203
JussiParikka
17 GoingBeyondtheVisible:NewAestheticasanAesthetic
ofBlindness? 219
ShintaroMiyazaki
18 GlitchSorting:Minecraft,CurationandthePostdigital 232
ThomasApperley
19 ThroughGlassDarkly:OnGoogle’sGnosticGovernance 245
MarcTuters
20 NewAestheticinthePerspectiveofSocialPhotography 259
VitoCampanelli
21 AestheticsoftheBanal–‘NewAesthetics’inanEraofDiverted
DigitalRevolutions 271
ChristianUlrikAndersenandSørenBroPold
22 NetworksNOW:BelatedTooEarly 289
WendyHuiKyongChun
Index 316
Figures
2.1 Populartake-awayrestaurantinRotterdam,echoingan
episodefrom19th-centuryDutchcolonialhistory,when
membersoftheChineseminoritylivinginJava(Indonesia,
thenaDutchcolony)werebroughtascontractworkerstoa
government-runplantationinSuriname,anotherDutch
colony 15
2.2 Google.nlimagesearchresultfor‘digital’givesmainlyblue
imagesinoriginal,October2013 16
4.1 Thedigitaliceberg 47
8.1 NASAEarthObservatoryimagecreatedbyJesseAllen,using
EO-1ALIdataprovided 103
9.1 Theselfiedataset(includingTokyo) 111
9.2 Aframefromablendedvideomontage 113
9.3 Imageplotsshowingdistributionsofselfiesbycity,ageand
gender 114
9.4 Ascreenshotfromtheselfiexploratoryapp 114
9.5 Achartshowingoneoftheselectedfindings 115
16.1 SportisGreat,fromthe‘Great’campaign 207
16.2 LondonundergroundcircuitmapbyYuziSuzuki 214
21.1 ZoomedversionofNASAEarthObservatoryimagecreated
byJesseAllen,usingEO-1ALIdataprovided 272
21.2 ImagefromJohannesOsterhoff’sIphone-live.net.Theproject
uploadsscreendumpseverytimehepressesabuttononhis
iPhone.Thesescreendumpsareenabledbytheplatform
itselftoincreaseperformativity 276
21.3 ChristopheBruno’sDadametermap.Themapdisplaysthe
correlationbetweenthehomophonyandproximityofwords
inGoogleandhow,forexample,wordsthatarestrongly
connectedinanetworktendtoendintheareaofBoredom
(banality),andhowunambiguityendsasUtilitarianism 282
21.4 AramBartholl’sFirstPersonShooterisanexampleofa
low-techmock-upthatdemonstratesaninterfaced
first-person-shooterway-of-seeing.Imagebypermissionof
AramBartholl 285
21.5 AramBartholl’sDroppingtheInternet performanceliterally
destroystheearlyutopianinterneticonographybydropping
aflashyinternetsignfroma1990sinternetcafe 286
22.1 TheU.S.HighwayNetwork 297
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