POETICS AND POLITICS OF DATA

Edited by HeK
(Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Published by
Christoph Merian Verlag
272 pages
17 x 24 cm
English
Softcover
ISBN 9783856166816

Price: 135 lei

Whether using Internet-based installations or graphic data visualisations, these artists question the relevance and place of the individual in a technologically wired society in which each of us generates a nearly incomprehensible amount of data on a daily basis. The digital traces we leave behind reflect a world increasingly controlled by data, and the artistic positions presented in this book seek to make those continuous streams of information visible. Through the phenomena of “big data” and “data mining”, critical questions are posed about our ambivalence towards living in such a world. With essays by Orit Halpern, Claudia Mareis, Ramón Reichert, and others.