Wright Stephen. Dataesthetics Reader: How to Do Things With Data

Frankfurt am Main: Revolver. Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2007. — 188 p. — ISBN: 953-6542-85-4; ISBN: 3-86588-369-9Data has become the most pervasive – and intangibly invasive – feature of contemporary life; of life become data. Life systems have been the object of sustained data gathering since the time of the Enlightenment, and cartography, flow charts, graphs and statistical databases have played a preponderant role in the shift from a society based on discipline to contemporary regimes of biopolitical control. Art production long sought to protect the relatively autonomous sphere it had eked out for itself from any incursion by the potentially deadening logic of knowledge production and data gathering and display. In the face of the sheer glut and facile allure of purpose-driven information and rationality, art’s self-assigned role was to affirm its radical uselessness. Yet as knowledge use has become inseparable from the exercise of power, many practitioners have chosen to use the strength of data to challenge and potentially subvert data-power. Critical cartography, tactical magic, database use and research have become integral components of artistic competence, which refuses to leave social critique to the social sciences.Stephen Wright: How to Do Things with Data
Brian Holmes: Drifting Through the Grid
Bureau D’Etudes: Resymbolizing Machines:
Artwork after Oyvind Fahlström
Nataša Petrešin: Sonic Psychogeography and Orbital Viewing
Trevor Paglen talks to Rene Gabri: Certain forms of space / Blank spots on maps
McKenzie Wark: Information / A Hacker Manifesto
Aaron Gach / Center for Tactical Magic, talks to Gregory Sholette: Secret Pockets
Naeem Mohaiemen / Visible Collective talks to Media Farzin
Bureau D’Études: Administration AestheticsMartha Rosler: Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply ObtainedStephen Wright: Kako raditi s podacima
Brian Holmes: Tumaranje mrežom
Bureau D’Études: Presimboliziranje strojeva:
Umjetnost nakon Oyvinda Fahlströma
Nataša Petrešin: Zvučna psihogeografija i orbitalno promatranje
Razgovor između Trevora Paglena i Renea Gabrija: Određeni oblici prostora / Prazne mrlje na kartama
McKenzie Wark: Informacija / Hakerski manifest
Razgovor između Aarona Gacha / Center for Tactical Magic i Gregorya Sholettea: Tajni džepovi
Razgovor između Naeema Mohaiemena / Visible
Collective i Medie Farzin
Bureau D’Études: Estetika administracije