The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture
2020 (Engelska)Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]
‘The network is everlasting’ wrote Robert Filliou and George Brecht in 1967, a statement that, at first glance, still seems to be true of today’s world. Yet there are also signs that the omnipresence of networks is evolving into another reality. In recent times, the limits of networks rather than their endless possibilities have been brought into focus. Ongoing media debates about hate speech, fake news, and algorithmic bias swirl into a growing backlash against networks. Perhaps it is time to reconsider the contemporary reach and relevance of the network imaginary.
Accompanying transmediale 2020 End to End’s exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’, this collection gathers contributions from artists, activists, and theorists who engage with the question of the network anew. In referencing Filliou’s eternal notion, the exhibition and publication project closes the loop between pre- and post-internet imaginaries, opening up possible futures with and beyond networks. This calls many of the collection’s authors to turn to instances of independent and critical net cultures as historical points of inspiration for rethinking, reforming, or refuting networks in the present.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, and transmediale e.V , 2020.
Nyckelord [en]
networks, net art, critical net cultures, digital culture, media art, digital art, Transmediale, media activism
Nationell ämneskategori
Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Forskningsämne
Data- och informationsvetenskap, Medieteknik; Design; Humaniora, Konstvetenskap
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-132542ISBN: 978-94-92302-46-5 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-94-92302-45-8 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-132542DiVA, id: diva2:1898120
Anmärkning
Presentation från samlingsverket: Kristoffer Gansing is a curator, writer, and researcher living in Berlin, where between 2011 and 2020 he has been the artistic director of nine editions of transmediale. Intersecting art, theory, and technology, Gansing’s writing and curation has a post-digital outlook, where digitalization has become part of everyday life. His PhD ‘Transversal Media Practices’ dealt with how media-archaeological art practices reconfigure linear conceptions of technological development, and was published by Malmö University Press in 2013. He co-edited across & beyond: A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, with Ryan Bishop, Jussi Parikka, and Elvia Wilk (Sternberg Press, 2016). Gansing previously worked with the artist-run TV channel tv-tv in Copenhagen, and as co-director of the media art festival The Art of the Overhead, devoted to the near-forgotten medium of the overhead projector.
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