Tue, 10 February 2015
Steigler and Tron discuss the idea of improbable events, the singular un-calculable event. In our society the singular is being converter into the particular ( algorithms that predict user behavior based on their profiles in a given system have no interest in the individual as a whole). The digital economy depends on predictable, calculable, behaviors of users. Big Data approaches rely on analytic approaches which are incapable of creating truths that depend on intuition built on individual experience- understanding and reason cannot be conflated. This requires 'de-automating' the processes, and creating negentropy by injecting effort through an Art of Hypercontrol. This creates a quasi-causality (Deleuze) by breaking the causal chain. Stiegler speculates on the coming transformation of the economy as extended automatisation eliminates systematically classic employment. The Art of Hypercontrol seeks to establish an ecology of the improbable. |
Mon, 9 February 2015
A Podcast with Mohamed H.Youssef, an independent Egyptian artist who experiments with a large diversity of media and different forms of visual and plastic arts: artistic booklets, digital works, paintings… Since 2006, his work has been focusing mainly on digital arts, and particularly on interactive spaces (with, for example, art pieces such as The Table, in search of lost time… and his project Particles). He has exhibited his work in Egypt, Germany, France, Korea.
Direct download: Rencontre_avec_Mohamed_Youssef_-Virtual_Africa_-.mp3
Category:Virtual Africa -- posted at: 8:40pm CDT |
Mon, 9 February 2015
Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts" by Douglas Kahn, présenté par Roger Malina
In the Audiolats series "Il était une fois une œuvre / Milestone work", Roger Malina presents the book "Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts" by Douglas Kahn (University of California Press, 2013). |