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Scholars with different backgrounds in literature, architecture, landscape architecture and filmmaking joined forces in a series of research workshops exploring filmmaking as a caring and co-affective methodology. Inspired by feminist scholars who have addressed how to collectively create and care for non-human realms, we wanted to emphasize practi...
Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the ‘leaky home’ as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed...
This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transf...
Organized around ten chapters and works of new media art, the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance – and other emotional relations – as well as provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in the so-called Tamagotchi era.
Understanding the attachment owners can feel to their robot vacuums, which also map and collect data about their homes, is key to understanding the ambivalences involved in the integration of automated visualities in the home. Drawing on qualitative video interviews and observations of people interacting with their robot vacuums, this article ident...
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts releva...
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts releva...
“You know what I mean, out here in the real world you can genuinely prevent stuff, can’t you?” junior detective Blue Coulson (Faye Marsay) explains when Chief Inspector Karin Parke (Kelly Macdonald) asks her why she switched from the digital forensics department. Yet this episode of Black Mirror—Hated in the Nation, the sixth and final episode of s...
A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.
The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism...
We are surrounded by digital apparatuses that continuously capture, process, and archive social and material information: from global search engines to local smart cities; from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire and master more information and knowledge and to el...
Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers while avoiding subjecting the user to unwanted risks. Geolocation features are used in these apps on the one hand as matching techniques that created links between the user...
This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical r...
With slogans such as ‘Tell the stories hidden in your data’ (www.narrativescience.com) and ‘From data to clear, insightful content – Wordsmith automatically generates narratives on a massive scale that sound like a person crafted each one’ (www.automatedinsights.com), a series of companies currently market themselves on the ability to turn data int...
With a starting point in the success that the netdrama series SKAM has had in engaging its audience in an almost addictive relation, this article examines how the series makes use of formal techniques such as repetition, intermissions and a minute-by-minute temporality to generate what may be considered a “narrative desire”, with a classic term bor...
Abstract | Originally housed in generic industrial buildings, data centres have become sites of architectural feats and playgrounds for starchitects in recent years. These buildings testify to a changed role of how we think of these repositories for data and their position in our society. Through a reading of the Bahnhof data centre Pionen in Stock...
Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology and civic art. She has run breastpump hackathons, created award-winning water quality sculptures that talk and tweet, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her research at the intersectio...
Denne artikel undersøger ved hjælp af en læsning af Twitter-novellen Black Box af den amerikanske forfatter Jennifer Egan relationen mellem information, narration og overvågning i samtidskulturen. En samtidskultur præget af store datamængder og totalovervågning, som har implikationer for vores opfattelse af privatliv. Artiklen argumenterer for, at...
This article considers the motif of porosity and its opposite, impenetrability, in relation to the home or places where we feel at home. It discusses ambiguities in how the physical boundaries of the home—but also of the perceived human subject—are portrayed in the technology-pervaded world of the dystopian science fiction narrative Total Recall. T...
With a starting point in three examples of Twitter stories by the German director Florian Meimberg, this article argues that literary fiction in Twitter newsfeeds allows us to reflect on how we read Twitter newsfeeds in general, as well as how narratives such as Meimberg’s are in dialogue with the reading modes of the media platform that facilitate...
With a starting point in three examples of Twitter stories by the German director Florian Meimberg, this article argues that literary fiction in Twitter newsfeeds allows us to reflect on how we read Twitter newsfeeds in general, as well as how narratives such as Meimberg's are in dialogue with the reading modes of the media platform that facilitate...
The notion of the Smart City describes the city as a system of information and flow, one that, although complex and wayward, can be controlled, manipulated and optimised to increase efficiency in sectors such as transportation infrastructures, health care, etc. This way of thinking takes for granted that there exists something like a common goal of...
Traditionally, the idea of surveillance is related to the faculty of sight. From God's all-knowing eye over Bentham's panopticon architecture, to the CCTV cameras in train stations, vision prevails.1 Even when we are dealing with eavesdropping or 'dataveillance', we often speak of surveillance as that which makes visible what was previously invisib...
Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing.
Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising...
Reinhard Jirgl is an important and challenging but still relatively understudied contemporary German writer. This article looks at his novel Abtrünnig: Roman aus der nervösen Zeit from 2005, focusing on the function of the hyperlinks boxes, which dominate the textual layout. It shows that Abtrünnig is a strong example of how hyperlinks can work in...
Transparent glass facades dominate much contemporary high– to mid–rise urban residential architecture. This article takes a closer look at life behind glass facades in contemporary surveillance culture. The aim is to illuminate how the material culture of contemporary architecture together with surveillance practices and technologies contribute to...
SURVEILLANCENARRATIONS. SURVEILLANCE AS SUBJECT AND FORM IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVELWithin recent years surveillance has simultaneously become a pervasive topic of public debate, a growing academic field in its own right and an increasingly popular theme in the arts and popular culture. This article argues that there are significant insights to be ga...
This essay is concerned with the significance of the references to the internet in Grass's recent novella Im Krebsgang. It examines recent public statements by Grass, including his Nobel Prize lecture of 1999, in order to expound the issues raised in Im Krebsgang. It distinguishes between the different types of commemoration exemplified by the main...
diacritics 33.3/4 (2003) 151-172
At a lecture on the history of the book in May 2003 at the University of Cambridge, Jerome McGann, a vehement spokesman for the cultural significance of information technology, was asked why it is at all worthwhile for literary scholars to occupy themselves with digital technologies. Why this marveling at the possib...
