Search Routines: Tales of Databases

Herausgeber: Brüggemann, Lena; Hunger, Francis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Databases pervade our everyday life, they are involved in the individual's most fundamental activities. Through their near invisibility and resistance to narration they produce subtle forms of collective control and normalization, accompanied by keywords such as: mass surveillance, big data, user generated content, etc. The publication "Search Routines: Tales of Databases" enlarges on the topics discussed in the exhibition, the workshop and during the symposium which took place at D21 Kunstraum and sublab hackerspace Leipzig in 2014. A series of interviews review artistic strategies like narration or the translation of data and algorithms to adress the invisibility of databases. Reports from the workshops tell about the potential of making the invisible visible or simply of hiding oneself from the databases' range of view. The symposium dis

Produktdetails

• Verlag: D21 Kunstraum / D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 120mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9783000505027
• ISBN-10: 3000505024
• Artikelnr.: 44162211

Autorenporträt

Francis Hunger is an artist, author, university teacher and software designer with numerous international exhibitions, festival appearances, and public talks. His work ranges from complex installations and digital media projects to radio drama and performances. The broad range of topics cover: Early Eastern European computing technologies, space travel and film-making, meet Cold War technologies such as number stations and satellites, and more general topics such as Fordism and Post-Fordism. His publications include: /Setun. An inquiry into the Soviet ternary computer/ (2008). /Satellites, Border, Footprint/ (2011) with Lisa Parks. /History has left the building/ (2012) a monographic catalogue. www.irmielin.org