
Search Routines: Tales of Databases
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig (Publisher)
Published on 24. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-3-00-050502-7 (ISBN)
Description
Databases pervade our everyday life, they are involved in the individual's most fundamental activities. Through their near invisibility and resistance to narration they produce subtle forms of collective control and normalization, accompanied by keywords such as: mass surveillance, big data, user generated content, etc.
The publication "Search Routines: Tales of Databases" enlarges on the topics discussed in the exhibition, the workshop and during the symposium which took place at D21 Kunstraum and sublab hackerspace Leipzig in 2014. A series of interviews review artistic strategies like narration or the translation of data and algorithms to adress the invisibility of databases. Reports from the workshops tell about the potential of making the invisible visible or simply of hiding oneself from the databases' range of view. The symposium discussed databases from a sociological and cultural sciences perspective.
The publication "Search Routines: Tales of Databases" enlarges on the topics discussed in the exhibition, the workshop and during the symposium which took place at D21 Kunstraum and sublab hackerspace Leipzig in 2014. A series of interviews review artistic strategies like narration or the translation of data and algorithms to adress the invisibility of databases. Reports from the workshops tell about the potential of making the invisible visible or simply of hiding oneself from the databases' range of view. The symposium discussed databases from a sociological and cultural sciences perspective.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leipzig
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
130 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-00-050502-7 (9783000505027)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Editor
Lena Brüggemann works as an artist, curator and artistic director of D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany. Traversing her work are experimental set-ups of media and mediation, questioning its logics, rules, in- and exclusions. As for example with the radio series »on radio« (2009-2011), an exhibition space for artworks within and about the medium radio. And »Taking Site!« (2013 at 5533 Istanbul and a parallel live-stream at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig) in regard to site and remote viewing.
At D21 Kunstraum her program focuses on international contemporary art that critically explores current issues that are rarely presented in Leipzig. Aiming to create a space that encourages experimentation and offers frameworks for exchange she curates a variety of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and screenings throughout the year.
www.d21-leipzig.de
Francis Hunger is an artist, author, university teacher and software designer
with numerous international exhibitions, festival appearances, and public talks.
His work ranges from complex installations and digital media projects to radio
drama and performances. The broad range of topics cover: Early Eastern European
computing technologies, space travel and film-making, meet Cold War technologies
such as number stations and satellites, and more general topics such as as
Fordism and Post-Fordism. His publications include: /Setun. An inquiry into the
Soviet ternary computer/ (2008). /Satellites, Border, Footprint/ (2011) with
Lisa Parks. /History has left the building/ (2012) a monographic catalogue.
www.irmielin.org
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