Viktor Šik: Kulturní analytika – metoda vizualizace velkých kulturních dat (2012) [Czech]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · big data, cultural analytics, data visualisation, media art, software, software studies
Předmětem této magisterské diplomové práce je kulturní analytika jako metoda pro výzkum kulturní produkce se zaměřením na vizuální produkci za použití nejnovějších technologií výpočetní techniky. Práce si klade za cíl představit základní principy kulturní analytiky, teoretický a historický kontext a související metodologii jakou je například vizualizace informací. Debata o kulturní analytice je zasazena do diskurzu softwarových studií jakožto nové humanistické a uměnovědné disciplíně, která se kriticky vymezuje proti mediálním studiím a obrací se k základním principům informačních technologií. Závěrečná případová studie pak ve smyslu kulturní analytiky demonstruje možnosti zpracování velkých dat, techniky automatizované analýzy a způsoby vizualizace médií na analýze vytvořené výhradně pro účely této práce.
Magisterská diplomová práce
Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury/Teorie interaktivních médií
Vedoucí práce: Jana Horáková
Brno: FF MU, 2012
La Société Anonyme: The SKOR Codex (2012)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · archive, archiving, art, code, data, digital heritage, media art, preservation, print, storage
The SKOR Codex is a printed book which will be sent to different locations on earth. It contains binary encoded image and sound files selected to portray the diversity of life and culture at the Foundation for Art and Public Domain (SKOR), Amsterdam, and is intended for any intelligent terrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find it. The files are protected from bitrot, software decay and hardware failure via a transformation from magnetic transitions on a disk to ink on paper, safe for centuries. Instructions in a symbolic language explain the origin of the book and indicate how the content is to be decoded.
La Société Anonyme noted that “the package will be encountered and the book decoded only if there will be advanced civilizations on earth in the far future. But the launching of this ‘bottle’ into the cosmic ‘ocean’ says something very hopeful about art on this planet.” Thus the record is best seen as a time capsule and a statement rather than an attempt to preserve SKOR for future art historians. The SKOR Codex is a project by La Société Anonyme.
Published in July 2012
304 pages
Interview with authors (Annet Dekker, Open!, 2014).
Comment (0)Berry, van Dartel, Dieter, Kasprzak, Muller, O’Reilly, de Vicente: New Aesthetic, New Anxieties (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, computing, floss, hacking, locative media, media art, net criticism, net culture, new aesthetic
The New Aesthetic was a design concept and netculture phenomenon launched into the world by London designer James Bridle in 2011. It continues to attract the attention of media art, and throw up associations to a variety of situated practices, including speculative design, net criticism, hacking, free and open source software development, locative media, sustainable hardware and so on. This is how we have considered the New Aesthetic: as an opportunity to rethink the relations between these contexts in the emergent episteme of computationality. There is a desperate need to confront the political pressures of neoliberalism manifested in these infrastructures. Indeed, these are risky, dangerous and problematic times; a period when critique should thrive. But here we need to forge new alliances, invent and discover problems of the common that nevertheless do not eliminate the fundamental differences in this ecology of practices. In this book, perhaps provocatively, we believe a great deal could be learned from the development of the New Aesthetic not only as a mood, but as a topic and fix for collective feeling, that temporarily mobilizes networks. Is it possible to sustain and capture these atmospheres of debate and discussion beyond knee-jerk reactions and opportunistic self-promotion? These are crucial questions that the New Aesthetic invites us to consider, if only to keep a critical network culture in place.
New Aesthetic New Anxieties is the result of a five day Book Sprint organized by Michelle Kasprzak and led by Adam Hyde at V2_ from June 17–21, 2012.
Facilitated by: Adam Hyde
Authors: David M. Berry, Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O’Reilly and José Luis de Vicente.
Published in Rotterdam, June 2012
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