To Tremble the Zero: Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

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dc.contributor.authorGolding, Johnny
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Steve
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-06T18:56:44Z
dc.date.available2015-10-06T18:56:44Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2009-06-06
dc.description.abstract‘To Tremble the Zero: Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction’ is a philosophic, political and sensuous journey playing with (and against) Benjamin’s ‘Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. In an age inundated by the ‘post-’: postmodernity, posthuman, post art, postsexual, post-feminist, post-society, post-nation, etc, ‘To Tremble the Zero’ sets out to re/present the nature of what it means to do or make ‘art’, as well as what it means to be or have ‘human/ity’ when the ground is nothing other than the fractal, and algorithmically infinite, combinations of zero and one. The work will address also the unfortunate way in which modern forms of metaphysics continue to creep ‘unsuspectingly’ into our understanding of contemporary media/electronic arts, despite (or perhaps even because of) the attempts by Latour, Badiou, or Agamben especially when addressing the zero/one as if a contradictory ‘binary’ rather than as a kind of ‘slice’ or (to use Deleuze and Guattari) an immanent plane of immanence. This work argues that by retrieving Benjamin, Einstein, Gödel, and Haraway, a rather different story of art can be told.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Summer Institute, Workshop and Conference Grant – Critical Digital Studies Workshopen_US
dc.identifier.citationGolding, Johnny and Kennedy, Steve. "To Tremble the Zero: Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2009/06/to-tremble-the-zero-art-in-the-age-of-algorithmic-reproduction/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6746
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Digital Studies Workshopsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectWalter Benjamin
dc.subjectalgorithmic reproduction
dc.subjectbinary
dc.subjectmetaphysics
dc.subjectelectronic art
dc.subjectPacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.titleTo Tremble the Zero: Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproductionen_US
dc.typeRecording, oralen_US

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