Category Archives: Blog 07

I want to comment in general on Hito Steyerl’s usage of Tumblr in her work Liquidity Inc.  I admire Hito for choosing the path of digital landscape to dwell on in her work. Having lived in Berlin for half a year, I can say that the city is into traditional and street arts, and techno music […]

“Dematerialization is not an oppressive suffocation of art but a possibility for art to flourish in disparate and progressive discourses. The web offers infinite room for expansion and participation unlimited by the more severe constraints of space and finance.” This is one of the last paragraphs of the reading and in the paragraphs before this […]

The quote that drew my attention the most was “Goldsmith points out that the linguistic basis of the digital era holds the same consequences for literature that are as potentially shattering and vitalizing as the arrival of mechanical reproduction was for visual art: “With the rise of the web, writing has met its photography.””. This […]

One can’t help but ask if much art is left once a project folds itself so successfully into socialmedia culture.” Art is not bound by the constraints of the internet, social media, the digital or physical world. Art, like time and space, is infinite and does not live on the same plane as us. There […]

“I am liquidity incorporated… the rainbow…torrent…cloud.”  I really understood this quote as soon as I read it by Mark Sladen in his article The great wave. Liquidity means the availability of assets to a market or company and the speed of cashing out your assets. Incorporated from a business sense is to be in a […]

“One of the biggest misunderstandings about digital information is that it is replicated identically, without loss or transformation. But anyone who works with such information knows that digital practice is constituted – like perhaps any technology – by malfunction. One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and […]

“One of the biggest misunderstandings about digital information is that it is replicated identically, without loss or transformation. But anyone who works with such information knows that digital practice is constituted – like perhaps any technology – by malfunction. One has to constantly convert information in order to work with it across different platforms and […]

In “Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke”, Hito Steryl says, “It strikes me that the best place to go to grapple with the digital condition is not the art gallery, but Tumblr, Youtube and even 4chan. What place does art have in confronting the digital, when today’s most successful digital expressions apparently […]

In this postmodern world that we live in, technology has become a factor of great influence on everything that we do on the daily. I find it interesting how when technology got involved with art, we started to figuring out different ways and styles in which this could be applied to art. Just like this […]