4 thoughts on “Material Transitions”

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   » “Circuit-bending Art”?

    
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   • » Parikka:
     “In short, what gets bent is not only the false image of lin­ear his­tory but also the cir­cuits and archive that form the con­tem­po­rary media land­scape.
     For us,‘media’ is approached through the con­crete arti­facts, design solu­tions and var­i­ous tech­no­log­i­cal lay­ers that range from hard­ware to soft­ware processes,
     each of which in its own way par­tic­i­pates in the cir­cu­la­tion of time and mem­ory.

     Media is itself an archive in the Fou­cauldian sense, as a con­di­tion of knowl­edge, but also as a
     con­di­tion of per­cep­tions, sen­sa­tions, mem­ory and time.

     In other words, the archive is not only a place for sys­tem­atic keep­ing of doc­u­ments, but is itself a con­di­tion of knowl­edge.” (“Zom­bie Media” p.427)
      

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     » Parikka: “if tem­po­ral­ity isin­creas­ingly cir­cu­lated, mod­u­lated and stored in tech­ni­cal media devices—
     the dia­gram­mat­ics and con­crete cir­cuits that tap into the microtem­po­ral­ity that is below the thresh­old of con­scious human per­cep­tion—
     we need to develop sim­i­lar cir­cuit bend­ing, art and activist prac­tices as an ana­lyt­i­cal and cre­ative method­ol­ogy:
     hence, the turn to archives in a wider sense that also encom­passes cir­cuits, switches, chips and other high-tech processes.

     Such epistemo-archaeological tasks are not only of artis­tic inter­est but tap into the eco­soph­i­cal sphere in under­stand­ing and rein­vent­ing rela­tions between the var­i­ous ecolo­gies across sub­jec­tiv­ity, nature and tech­nol­ogy.” (429−30)
      

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