Book:
Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art. A Kierkegaardian Inquiry intothe Imaginary of Possibility

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dc.creatorde Vries, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-07T09:23:59Z
dc.date.available2023-02-07T09:23:59Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractOver the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance art of various kinds that thematise the dissemination and deployment of algorithms in everyday life. Especially striking is the high volume of artistic engagements with facial recognition algorithms, trading algorithms and search engine algorithms over the past few years. The fact that these three types of algorithms have garnered more responses than other types of algorithms suggests that they form a popular subject of artistic critique. This critique addresses several significant, supra-individual anxieties of our decade: socio- political uncertainty and polarisation, the global economic crisis and cycles of recession, and the centralisation and corporatisation of access to online information. However, the constituents of these anxieties — which seem to be central to our experience of algorithmic culture — are rarely interrogated. They, therefore, merit closer attention. This book uses prominent artistic representations of facial recognition algorithms, trading algorithms, and search algorithms as the entry point into an exploration of the constituents of the anxieties braided around these algorithms. It proposes that the work of Søren Kierkegaard—one of the first theorists of anxiety—helps us to investigate and critically analyse the constituents of ‘algorithmic anxiety’.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19253
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978-94-92302-52-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod33-algorithmic-anxiety-in-contemporary-art-a-kierkegaardian-inquiry-into-the-imaginary-of-possibility/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20427
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Network Cultures
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectArten
dc.subjectAlgorithmen
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personSoren Kierkegaard
dc.titleAlgorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art. A Kierkegaardian Inquiry intothe Imaginary of Possibilityen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.academicbookseriesTheory on Demand
local.coverpage2023-02-07T11:40:43
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod33-algorithmic-anxiety-in-contemporary-art-a-kierkegaardian-inquiry-into-the-imaginary-of-possibility/
local.source.volume33
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118562002
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6512

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