Vertiginous Data

ed. by Park Deoksun ; texts by Matteo Pasquinelli, Zach Blas, Hito Steyerl ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Matteo Pasquinelli, Zach Blas, Hito Steyerl, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Park Deoksun

Publication

Seoul : MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2019

Scope

304 Pages, illustrated, 25.5 cm.

ISBN

9788963032085

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The exhibition titleVertiginous Data illuminates the economic and ethical aspects of data as communal utility, based on its non-neutral trait. In a time when everything, from aspects of our daily lives to national organizations, is analyzed and processed into “data,” data has come to govern not only individual lives but also social paradigms. The social impact of the digital environment serves as cause for hope but also concern regarding technologically powered visions of the future. The exhibition comprises three sections: the democracy and anti-feudalism of the digital mechanism; how contemporary artists utilize data; and new propositions using digital mechanisms.

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Person as subject

Forensic Architecture, Cao Fei, Rachel Ara, Zach Blas, Simon Denny, Chris Shen, Sylbee Kim, Woonghyun Kim and Harm van den Dorpel

Keywords

surveillance , new media , algorithms

Location

Cabinet 11 - 4: Digitale Media & Internet

Extra themes

Digitization - implications of

Remarks

Incl. Biographies.