Keith Piper’s Robot Bodies, Bladerunner and Digital Technology
Figure 1. Ridley Scott, Bladerunner, 1982. Film Still. In the iconic, cult classic, science fiction film…
Stelarc, Donna Haraway, Bodies and Illusion
Figure 1. Sitting/Swaying: Event for Rock Suspension. Tamara Gallery, Tokyo, 11 May 1980. Australian performance artist…
Utopic Symbols: Alex Hartley’s Nowhereisland and Robert Smithson’s Floating Island
Figure. 1. Alex Hartley, Nowhereisland, 2011. This weeks Vancouver reference readings made me curious about how contemporary…
Joseph Beuys: The Bridge Between Material and Lived Experience
Joseph Beuys, The Pack. Installation View, 1969. In Matt Ratto’s Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in…
The Golden Highway: Kittler’s Notions of Authoritarian Power is Alive and Well in our Fibre Optic Cable Systems
Figure 1. TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map Shows 285 cable networks, 2014. Open Source Image. In Friedrich…
Hannah Höch’s collage: Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic
Images are complex and can be perceived differently by each viewer. Philosopher C.S Peirce’s definition…
La Jetee: Unconscious, Conscious Moments, and Algorithms
Figure 1. Chris Marker. La Jetee, 1963. I was compelled to watch the 28-minute film La Jetee after our conversations…