✦ 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 ✦ essay by #NoraOMurchu for the 𝗔re 𝗬ou 𝗔 𝗦oftware 𝗨pdate? 📖
"...the image no longer represents power; it performs it. It operates as infrastructure: a system that governs what can be perceived, felt and known. Aesthetics, computation and administration converge in the same operation, regulating visibility and mood as forms of control."
💖 Preview and order here > https://aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update
Curator Nora O'Murchú opens #TacticsAndPractice 16: "Are You a Software Update?" at Kino Šiškain Ljubljana on 27 February 2024.
How she articulates the nature of the modern software industry and its entanglement with politics is right up my street. I hope to be able to find a way to work with her in future.
Aksioma & transmediale present a new book: 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. ✨
#AsiaBazdyrieva #RanjodhSinghDhaliwal #AnthonyDowney #FRAUD #ChrisLee #JussiParikka and #LauraTripaldi expand our understanding of scale to the more-than-human, trace its movements and frictions through histories, and question the way scale generates political power.
Edited by #NóraÓMurchú & #JanezFakinJanša.
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿: https://aksioma.org/scale-book
Preorders are open until 6 December 2023. 13€ preorder / 18€ regular price The books will be shipped out when the preorders are closed. Those placed at Aksioma shop will be shipped from Slovenia, and those at transmediale from Germany. The word scale is tricky. It invites many definitions, orientations and connections to ourselves, our […]
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