Sniff, Scrape, Crawl…

Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… Two Consecutive Panels Looking at Privacy and Surveillance Presented at ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) Istanbul, Turkey 2011 Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance… Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York, 1979), p. 217 We are living in a…

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Map Fest @ Mediamatic

Map Fest took place at Mediamatic Bank on July 6, 8 and 9. The second evening of Map Fest was dedicated to Mapping for Clarity. Guests were Richard Rogers, Catalogtree and De Geuzen. Urban sociologist and researcher Merijn Oudenampsen moderated the evening. Our talk was titled: Cartographies and Patterns: a view from the ladder For…

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Ada Lovelace Pledge
Thank You

Ada Lovelace Pledge 2010 A few but not all of the women I admire: Laurie Anderson, Femke Snelting, Maryanne Amacher, Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone , Donna Haraway, Ruth Catlow, Karin Spaink, Josephine Bosma, Steina Vasulka, Charlotte Moorman, Annie Abrahams, Olia Lialina, Rita Raley, Katherine Hayles, Kate Pullinger , Caitlin Fisher, Amanda Steggell, Ellen Røed, Michelle…

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The Global Anxiety Monitor @ STUK

In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents. As Sven Spieker notes, “Archives are less concerned with memory than with the necessity to discard, erase, eliminate.”

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