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#outofblue

Content type
Creative Work
Author
Marion Schwehr
Year
URL
#outofblue
Language
German
Publication Type
Exhibited at gallery or event
Presented at conference or festival
Published on the Web (individual site)
Platform/Software
Twitter
Record Status
Revisions required
Tags
twitter
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Description (in English)

From tweets to literature From the 1,000 posted tweets with the hashtag #outofblue, I developed a literary text. Just by selecting, shortening, arranging and repeating the tweets. Without adding any kind of text written by myself. Of course, also the title of the text was taken from a tweet: “Engelvariationen” (angel variations) – nothing could be more appropriate for a text, which deals with abstraction. Because the text, just like the event in the “Haus der Kunst”, is designed to experience abstraction. The text is not a documentation of the tweetup as such, but rather an exercise of abstraction. It calls for adventure. This might be exhausting, but promises a stunning experience. Enjoy!

(Source: authors abstract)

By Audun Andreassen, 3 April, 2013

Bitwise: The Logic of the Digital

Author
Aden Evens
Publication Type
Conference paper or presentation
Language
English
Year
Presented at Event
Electronic Literature Organization 2010: Archive & Innovate
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
digital culture
digital technology
digital aesthetics
binary
ontology
binary code
the real
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Abstract (in English)

This paper explores the ontology of the digital. Specifically I argue that digital technologies, digital aesthetics, and digital culture express characteristics of the binary code. The binary code, which defines the digital, balances between ideal and real; tied always to some material substrate, the binary code nevertheless operates according to a logic of perfectly specified 0s and 1s. And it tends to bring this idealized perfection into the real, dividing up the world into neat, discrete categories, offering predefined choices with predictable outcomes, and shaping not only the materials of the machine but also the bodies and habits of users according to this binary logic. The binary code is an apotheosis of abstraction, but it is an operative abstraction, which becomes effective even while retaining its pure formality. Brief examples will elaborate this overarching argument, considering the digital’s ontological relationships to temporality, space, material, virtuality, uniqueness, identity, determinism, and language.

(Source: Author's abstract for ELO_AI).

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