Searching for a Technological Agency within Art
http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/luke-munn/searching-technological-agency-within-art
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Istanbul Drone Shadow by James Bridle, CC image by STML http://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/
By Luke Munn.
In the wake of the Arab spring and the financial crisis and in the midst of the massive abuse of privacy unveiled in the NSA/Prism revelations, agency would seem to be all the more urgent. While problematic as pure activism, art is inherently political, opening into the wider plane of aesthetics which define “a cartography of the visible, the intelligible and also of the possible.” Are there art practices which provide models for this moment, which engender critical agency within their viewing publics, encouraging a deeper engagement with technology?
Searching for a Technological Agency within Art
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Type: discussion
