I found a lot of interesting points while reading “Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Streyerl and Daniel Rourke”. “Today the majority image production, dissemination, and commentary takes places online…the best place to go to grapple with the digital condition not the art gallery, but tumblr, youtube and even 4 chan.” “If artists do not expose […]
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Response to Artifacts. The artifacts article discusses the major changes in art throughout time with the introduction of technology. Unlike paintings, Digital arts are majorly being accessed through the internet rather than art galleries, the article states: “Today the majority of image production,dissemination, and commentary takes place online. it strikes me that the best place […]
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The poor image expresses the full ambivalence of Fanons idea of lumpenproletarians, which Arendt already beautifully and much more precisely described as mob in her “Elements of Totalitarianism”. The mob does not consist of the underclasses, but the “refuse of all classes”. The mob is composed of people expelled into a world characterised by violent […]
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“Digital information is thus characterised by transformation, degradation, circulation, but also by its surprising ability to mutate and produce unpredictable results.” What a fascinating read. One of my favorites so far. You can tell the writing was so fluid and packed with concrete ideas and wonderful theories. The glitch. A common word for gamers explaining […]
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