Executable Culture, Arguments with Objects
Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayersFeedback, Fedback, Feedforward University of Waterloo | 10 April 2015
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ThinkingTheory + MediaTogether
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Executable Culture
Asking how input becomes outputExamining the architectures of computationStudying how politics + aesthetics are entangledPrivileging surprise over controlResisting the notion of "withdrawn" objects
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McPherson on Media Studies
Image care of Cinema JournalSome Examples
Primarily by media practitioners who are also theorists
Image care of Jon Olaf JohnsonRosner and Ames on Negotiated Endurance
Image care of CSCW 2014Belojevic's Glitch Console
Blends circuit-bending with repairChanges the default state of a consoleTroubles make-break binary
Images and video care of Nina BelojevicRodgers on Pink Noises
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Noise is discursive + material / natural + artificialPiece expressed from multiple sourcesBoth analog and digitalSynthesis with dissonance
Image and video care of Tara RodgersAgre and Galloway on Grammars of Action
Image care of U. of Minnesota Presskopas's LIM
Abstraction + mechanics afford broad range of interpretations"as little verbal language as possible" (kopas)"as little specific imagery as possible" (kopas)Grammars of action have visceral effects
Image and game care of merritt kopasKirschenbaum's Forensic Imagination
Image care of MIT PressThe BitCurator Project
Parts of theory become preservation toolCuration is also a way of seeingAssumes curious status as instrument
Image care of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and UNC School of Information + Library Science Barad's Agential Realism
Image care of Duke U PArchitecture as Catalyst
Models where features are entangledPrompts new ways of talking about spaceExpression of environment is embodied
Image care of Sam Daley, Andrea Johnson, and the U. of MinnesotaArchitecture as Catalyst
Movement co-produces structureBuilt environment depends on changing factorsUnderstand agency through "stitched" cameras
Image care of Xin Hu, Chris Massey, Andrea Johnson, and the U. of MinnesotaBerry's Abduction Aesthetic
Image care of stunlawArnall's RobotReadable World
Computational patterns are phenomenologiesPrototype positions that cannot be assumedHighly speculative design
Image and video care of Timo ArnallSamuels and McGann's Deformance
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Playing with surveillance dataSurprise emerges from manipulationComplete control is not possible
Image care of MediumSome Questions
What doesn't congeal or stick?What cannot be saved or archived?What's unknown? What escapes?What changes over time?When is ephemerality the medium?How to account for bodies and context?
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Interfaces, platforms, default settingsPerformance, participants, accomplicesSettings, intra-action, timingAffect, surprises, glitchesRepair, care, maintenance
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Image care of Nina BelojevicKraus's Conjectural Knowledge
Image care of Digital Humanities QuarterlyKits for Cultural History
Identify the inaccessible and prototype it for interpretation
Image care of Gustave TrouvéWhat We Don't Know
Did it work?Who used it?What was the mechanism?How many were made?Under what assumptions was it made?
What We Conjecture
Remediation of the telegraph sounderThe designs are hyperboleNever actually workedBlended supernatural with realismSatire of British mourning culture
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Feedback: How to circulate and review?Fedback: What is the license for speculation?Feedforward: How to design for repair and change?
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Jentery Sayers | University of Victoria | @jenterysayersFeedback, Fedback, Feedforward University of Waterloo | 10 April 2015
Special Thanks to Beth Coleman, Marta Borowska,and Margaret Ulbrick
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