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By encouraging contemporary art museums to experiment with similar value flow curation, we hope to initiate a friendly, positive-sum competition among cultural institutions to connect in deeper ways with the material conditions of art workers and audiences.
Toby Shorin • Curating Value Exchange: Presentation + Q&A with Hito Steyerl
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What might be more interesting is to consider how the very properties of spreadability that characterize digital objects can be turned to advantage to make them collectable as well.
McKenzie Wark • My Collectible Ass - Journal #85
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Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
The purpose is to scout the path and shift the discourse.
Matt Webb • Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1
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As with the Mechanical Turk, the human persists within the machine
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
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“The glitch is a wonderful experience of an interruption that shifts an object away from its ordinary form and discourse… But once I named it, the momentum—the glitch—is no more…” For Menkman, the glitch cannot be described or it ceases to be what it claims; it is a lack, a break in the pattern of meaning that forces its own opening.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Keely Adler added
As the realm of virtual information complexifies, it is increasingly difficult to collectively experience, let alone agree on concrete descriptions of events. The platforms we use to communicate often lack archival affordances, optimizing instead for the nonstop production of new content. So context collapses and signifiers empty their meaning. Whe... See more
Libby Marrs • How to Read the Internet
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