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[English]
Computers
represent world through data and data types. The
creation of data type reflects both the need for
computational efficiency as well as the ideology of
the engineers and scientists behind the code. Marc
Böhlen argues that the work of amateurs and
artists can be seen as a contribution towards
questioning and expanding the limitations of
reality representation defined by computational
requirements.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-boehlen.htm
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Inner Workings
[English]
What does
programmed signification tell us about the inner
human writing machine? John Cayley's essay
reexamins Freud's Mystic Writing Pad and is sited
within the context of debates on code and codework
in literal art. Rather than revealed interiority,
code is the archive and guarantee of inner workings
than reside beneath the complex surfaces of poetics
in programmable media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-cayley.htm
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Conflicting
Organizational Designs [English]
In recent
decades the primary conflict between organizational
designs has been between hierarchies and networks,
an asymmetrical war exemplified most starkly in the
war against terrorism. But what happens when "the
powers that be" evolve from centralized hierarchies
into networked power? For Alex Galloway in the
future we are likely to experience a general shift
downward into a new bilateral organizational
conflict-networks fighting networks.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-galloway.htm
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Poetics of
Programming
[English]
Dynamic
texts offer new possibilities for reading and new
challenges in how we approach the reading object,
forcing the final object away from the idea of a
fixed form on a fixed surface. As Loss
Pequeño Glazier states in order to "read"
such an object, one must look deeper, into the code
itself, and one must consider the various
ramifications inherent in a code-based work.
Ultimately, one must explore the edge where
language apparatuses
engage.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-glazier.htm
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Coding the
Infome. Writing Abstract Reality
[English]
Today every
computer exists in relation to the Internet,
whether it is connected or not. Every software is
potentially a networked software, a building block
of the networks we live within and through. Because
of this, code is no longer Text, a symbolic
representation of reality - it is reality. To write
code is to create and manipulate this reality.
Within it, Lisa Jevbratt argues, artist-programmers
are more land-artists than writers, software are
more earthworks than narratives.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-jevbratt.htm
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Media, Software,
and Meta-media [English]
What is the
relationship between the computer's contemporary
identity as a simulator for all previous media, and
its "essence" as a programmable machine? Is
software art the only real "avant-garde" of new
media, or is the more "impure" practice of remixing
older media with software techniques equally
innovative? Lev Manovich lays out the way to answer
these questions and to illustrate his concept of
meta-media by showing and discussing a few of the
classics of new media art.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-manovich.htm
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