Hardware/Software/Wetware
Numeros tene, res sequentur. Stick to numbers and (all) things will follow. What is the computer?…
Technology, Innovation, and All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Figure 1. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, 2011. Found image. This weeks readings on Hardware/Software/Wetware…
Aisthesis and the Common: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere Colloquium
Figure 1. Nadia Myre, Meditations on Red #2, 2013. © Nadia Myre. Courtesy of the artist and Art…
Simulacra and the Human Condition
So in doing some reading on Baudrillard I found this interesting “translation” of The procession of…
New Media
“New Media” in history The broad definition of new media is kind of interesting according to…
From Here to Ear: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, through March 26 2016. On the blurred…
Technological Unconscious and Traces of Ourselves in Network Communication Systems
Figure 1-2. Franco Vaccari. Leave on the walls a photographic trace of your fleeting visit, 1972. Exhibition in…
Systems, structures, constraints, possibilities, adaptation, cybernetics and feedback loops
Figure 1-2. CYSP 1 (1956). Institute of Contemporary Art, Londres (1960). Figure 3. France, 1956, Nicolas…
From biomedia to cybernetics
Katherine Hayles distinguishes three phases in the history of cybernetics and highlights how each successive development…
Art, Technology and Online Identity
This New York Times article reviews an exhibition at several London galleries, all of which are exploring…