SKIN AND CODE
DNA #5
Edited by HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Daniel Neugebauer
Published by
Spector Books
88 pages
14.5 x 23 cm
English
Softcover
ISBN 9783959054614
Price: 50 lei
Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces via algorithms—in the form of biases turned into pixels, as discrimination implanted in memes in secret chat groups. The coding and decoding of body surfaces and interfaces is contingent on a whole host of norms. Yet these are not fixed: rather, they combine to create a matrix of tastes, cultural influences, technical conditions, and physical possibilities. The essays in this volume produce an interdisciplinary noise between surface structures and a selection of cavities: surfaces, skins, and interfaces are injured, gauged, altered, or remedied.
Texts by Alyk Blue, Johanna Burai, Luce deLire, i-Päd, Rhea Ramjohn, Calah P Toussaint-Amat, Anne Kaun