The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution
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Dada Data: Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth Politics. ed. / Sarah Hegenbart; Mara-Johanna Kölmel. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2023. p. 197-212.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution
AU - Simon, Joshua
PY - 2023/3/9
Y1 - 2023/3/9
N2 - This essay suggests the digital as counter-revolution. Within the question of technology and labour (productive and reproductive), the realities of the so-called digital revolution invite a reflection on the extractive and oppressive logic of the fantasy of automation. In this context, technology is positioned as an assault on the social. Taking up a variety of digital devices and applications that have come to be known as machine vision, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, algorithmic serials, uncanny valley and others, this essay explores their genealogy within the history of art in the early modern period; a time of immense extractive racialisation and colonisation which provided vast machinic development in the field of image-making. This essay will draw parallels between the archaeology of various media and art history, in order to assess our neo-colonial digital frontiers.
AB - This essay suggests the digital as counter-revolution. Within the question of technology and labour (productive and reproductive), the realities of the so-called digital revolution invite a reflection on the extractive and oppressive logic of the fantasy of automation. In this context, technology is positioned as an assault on the social. Taking up a variety of digital devices and applications that have come to be known as machine vision, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, algorithmic serials, uncanny valley and others, this essay explores their genealogy within the history of art in the early modern period; a time of immense extractive racialisation and colonisation which provided vast machinic development in the field of image-making. This essay will draw parallels between the archaeology of various media and art history, in order to assess our neo-colonial digital frontiers.
KW - Science of art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185988390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5040/9781350227644.ch-010
DO - 10.5040/9781350227644.ch-010
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85185988390
SN - 9781350227613
SN - 9781350227651
SP - 197
EP - 212
BT - Dada Data
A2 - Hegenbart, Sarah
A2 - Kölmel, Mara-Johanna
PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
ER -