Poetics and Politics of Data, HeK Basel, Buch

Poetics and Politics of Data

Merian, Christoph Verlag, HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Buch softcover, 272 pages, 83 mainly colour illustrations, 17 x 24 cm
2015
Deutsch, English
Sabine Himmelsbach, Claudia Mareis (ed.)
ISBN 978-3-85616-681-6
https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/poetics-and-politics-of-data

Poetics and Politics of Data reflects life in a world increasingly controlled by data and presents artistic positions that aim to make continuous streams of data visible – whether using Internet-based installations or graphic data visualizations. The participating artists question the relevance and place of the individual in a technologically connected society in which every day, each of us generates a nearly incomprehensible amount of data: Our every move on the Internet leaves behind a digital trace. In critical essays, Orit Halpern, Sabine Himmelsbach, Lev Manovich, Claudia Mareis, Ramón Reichert and Roberto Simanowski explore the phenomena of ‹Big Data› and ‹Data Mining› and pose critical questions about the ambivalence of life in a «datified» world.

I can't think of any other book that pinpoints in such a wide-ranging and critical way the topic of politics and data. This is a solid publication that goes beyond its simple role of being an art catalogue. (Régine Debatty, www.we-make-money-not-art.com, 25.8.2015)
Kuratiert von
Sabine Himmelsbach

Künstler*innen
Christopher Baker, Aram Bartholl, Paolo Cirio, R. Luke DuBois, Ellie Harrison, Marc Lee, Bernhard Hopfengärtner & Ludwig Zeller, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kristin Lucas, Moniker, Jennifer Lyn Morone, RYBN, Erica Scourti