“We can count, but we are rapidly forgetting how to say what is worth counting and why.” -Joseph Weizenbaum (16) Sesame Street’s Count von Count—a Bela Lugosi-style Transylvanian vampire plutocrat muppet of ostensible Romani origin with obsessive compulsive tendencies—holds a worldview which is essentially quantitative.1 Like the wielder of a golden hammer, to whom everything Read More
Gliché is a free iPhone app that promises to “distort your photos into works of digital art.”1 As characterized in a recent network-based arts biennial that featured the piece of software, it is “a free photo app to generate wrong.”2 The app adopts the aesthetics of glitches—those unanticipated and unintended technological errors—in the service of Read More
“Широкий” (wide). Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii. Russia: 17,098,242 km2 “Wide.” O Canada. Canada: 9,984,670 km2 “Colosso” (colossus). Hino Nacional Brasileiro. Brazil: 8,514,877 km2 “Boundless” Advance Australia Fair. Australia: 7,692,024 km2 “жерім” (vast). Meniñ Qazaqstanım. Kazakhstan: 2,724,900 km2 “Madambo” (broad). Mulungu dalitsa Malaŵi. Malawi: 118,484 km2 The six words in the image above—each pulled from a Read More
“Since the world is evolving towards a frenzied state of affairs, we have to take a frenzied view of it.” Jean Baudrillard (151) For the better part of three years I’ve been interpreting digital images.1 Imagery made and circulated on the Web, in my study of the visual culture of network aesthetics, was subjected to Read More