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Sounds from the modem’s peripheries – Luigi Monteanni

AUDIO, ESSAY, TECHNOLOGICAL PRESENT / By

By: Luigi Monteanni & Matteo Pennesi (Artetetra) Sounds from the Modem’s Peripheries A survey of the transglobal digital underground Keywords: music; underground; transnational; folklore; temporalities Mix Tracklist Internet-themed Skits from “The Amazing World of Gumball – Gumball and the Internet” and “Seaman Rocks! (Chat about internet)” (Downloaded from YouTube, 173 kps) YNO – うざん (UZAN) …

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A sentence that will produce a line of text is not its own sentence at all – Kelly Wu

TECHNOLOGICAL PRESENT, VIDEO / By

By: Kelly Wu A sentence that will produce a line of text is not its own sentence at all. Keywords: AI; oranges; friends; Google; texting Why think, when the AI can do that for me?  How much of our time should we spend taking selfies, speaking to our devices, making playlists on Spotify, etc.? Hours …

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AI, Myth and Metaphor – Ben Potter

ESSAY, NASCENT FUTURE / By

By: Ben Potter AI, Myth and Metaphor What’s the ‘Intelligence’ in Artificial Intelligence? Keywords: artificial intelligence; GPT-3; myth; metaphor; communication Introduction: Welcome to the Future What does the future of Artificial Intelligence look like? Firstly, we will have much more data available to us. We’ll have sensors of every sort, embedded in all kinds of …

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An Instagram Timeline – Vidya Gopal

IMAGE, ODE TO THE PAST / By

By: Vidya Gopal An Instagram Timeline Keywords: Instagram; platform design; history; monetisation; attention Project Statement Instagram has been around for 12 years, and in these years, it has changed considerably in its features, target audience and focus. Last June, company head Adam Mosseri said Instagram was no longer ‘just a photo sharing app’, and they …

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When the Dust Settles – Nicky Broekhuysen & Mine Kaplangi

CREATIVE, ESSAY, ODE TO THE PAST, VIDEO / By

By Nicky Broekhuysen & Mine Kaplangi When the Dust Settles An unsettled experimentation on a 2016 exhibition The Digital Archaeologist Keywords: media archaeology; binary code; collaboration; digital archive; experimentation I have realised that there is no final ‘ordered end point’ rather there is just the space through which one passes on the journey to discovering …

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Computational Constructions of Time and Deep Futures in John F. Simon’s Every Icon (1997) – Katherine Mitchell

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By: Katherine Mitchell Computational Constructions of Time and Deep Futures in John F. Simon’s Every Icon (1997) A media philosophy of (deep) time Keywords: temporality; computation; obsolescence; internet; aesthetics In an age of rapid technological obsolescence and pervasive discourse on communication technologies’ phenomenological annihilation of time and space stands a body of media theory preoccupied …

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Air Raid Camera Roll – Clemens Poole

CREATIVE, ESSAY, IMAGE, TECHNOLOGICAL PRESENT / By

By: Clemens Poole AIR ALARM CAMERA ROLL Keywords: Ukraine; Lviv; war, war photography, digital practice Project Statement Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays tricks with time. War compresses aspects of the past and flattens expanses of the present. There are, of course, the grand narratives; the past is brought back, or projected into an imperial future …

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Digital Oz – Liz Blum

IMAGE, TECHNOLOGICAL PRESENT / By

The life of an image in the digital network exists forever, untethered to history, people or place. It persists into the future in its digital afterlife, piling up against the rest of technology’s digital universe, its presence a construct made of code and data.

Towards a fourfold digital weaver theory: notes on a past-future praxis – Karl Logge

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By: Karl Logge Towards a fourfold digital weaver theory: notes on a past-future praxis Keywords: Weird design, Weird digital, Weaver Theory, Speculative Fourfolding Cyborg informatics, recrafting bodies / Artificial intelligence, C31 operations codingMultiple databases, umbilical network / Breath engine, indestructible heart…We are the first to program your future / We are the first of cyber- …

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