Language Comes After Artist: A Selection of Printed Works by artist Lynne Avadenka
http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/avadenka2013
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Online exhibit of printed works by artist Lynne Avadenka
Language Comes After Artist: A Selection of Printed Works by artist Lynne Avadenka
http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/avadenka2013
The Data Infrastructures of Thinking and Making
Jamie Allen, artist and Head of Research at CIID (the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design), discusses the relationship between technology, data, truth and representation. His projects deal with the material of media and its infrastructure (http://heavyside.net).
Abstract:
Technologies which manipulate data compose a new media, a new technical image, that is no longer a photograph of some presumed real, but an infinitely inferential and interpretable rendering of supposedly "raw knowledge" from a highly distributed network of spinning platters of silicon. As spheres of representation expand to include the psychic and biological interiorities of our lives, we increasingly see ourselves reflected in this data, not even as others see us, but as machines of collection and interpretation do. Claims of beauty and truth telling that the data body bring forth are not new: these are always the claims made by the apostles of any new media. There is not more truth in data than there is elsewhere, only newly warped reflections. As we examine the data from the mount on our new digital tablets, we are best to ask how this data reflects, rather that what new truth it holds.
Technologies which manipulate data compose a new media, a new technical image, that is no longer a photograph of some presumed real, but an infinitely inferential and interpretable rendering of supposedly "raw knowledge" from a highly distributed network of spinning platters of silicon. As spheres of representation expand to include the psychic and biological interiorities of our lives, we increasingly see ourselves reflected in this data, not even as others see us, but as machines of collection and interpretation do. Claims of beauty and truth telling that the data body bring forth are not new: these are always the claims made by the apostles of any new media. There is not more truth in data than there is elsewhere, only newly warped reflections. As we examine the data from the mount on our new digital tablets, we are best to ask how this data reflects, rather that what new truth it holds.
MLibrary Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Rhizome - for emerging artistic practices that engage technology
The Library has an institutional subscription to Rhizome http
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, their website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Their programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. They support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Their organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.
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