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Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder (eds.) Arjun Appadurai, Simon Conway Morris, Brian Massumi, Sadie Plant e.o. Information is Alive Design: Joke Brouwer, Paperback, sewn, illustrated (colour), 192 pages, size: 23 x 16 cm NAi Publishers in cooperation with V2_Publishing DEAF03-exhibition in Pakhuis Las Palmas Rotterdam, 26 February - 9 March 2003. For more information: www.deaf.v2.nl
Databases, software and archives increasingly form the inspiration for artistic interventions. This book considers the artistic potential of these couplings. Information is Alive is being published on the occasion of the DEAF03 festival, which brings together various strands of research into the phenomenon of 'living archives' in interactive installations, performances and a symposium. Information is Alive presents a selection of essays, interviews and projects by the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, philosopher Brian Massumi, writer Sadie Plant, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, the artists Margarete Jahrmann, Lev Manovich, Michael Saup, Jeffrey Shaw, Stahl Stenslie and others. |
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The archive has proven to be a powerful metaphor in many contemporary concepts. History is viewed as an archive of facts which you can draw from at will. Our bodies have become a genetic archive since being opened up digitally in the Human Genome project. Our language is an archive of meanings that can be unlocked using philological tools. The unconscious is an archive of the traumatic experiences that mould our identity. More and more artists - individuals and groups - and architects are developing (software) systems in which data is automatically organized into complex knowledge systems, a process in which the user is only one of the determining factors.
